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Saturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him.
Quote:I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good.
Quote:Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM
Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote:I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote:Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM
Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around.
Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it.
Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on.
Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah.
Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those.
Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies.
Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold.
Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great.
Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM
THG
Keep it real please
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted...
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry KissingerQuote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around.
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See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! 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He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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Mon, December 15, 2025 14:45 - 24 posts QAnons' representatives here Mon, December 15, 2025 14:41 - 1142 posts Hollywood exposes themselves as the phony whores they are Mon, December 15, 2025 14:29 - 220 posts Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? Mon, December 15, 2025 14:28 - 4105 posts Go Joe Biden Go Mon, December 15, 2025 14:26 - 259 posts A thread for Democrats Only Mon, December 15, 2025 14:25 - 7149 posts All things Space Mon, December 15, 2025 14:23 - 372 posts VIEW MORE TOPICS FFF.NET SOCIAL All FIREFLY graphics and photos on this page are copyright 2002-2012 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda:THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> IN THE GARDEN, AND RAIN!!! (2) REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:31 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 195030 PAGE 130 of 130 PREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE Saturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
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He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Scrolling past THGR is easy. THGR, the problem with your formatting and signature is that you have one too many "endquotes". So when I erase all the crap that you attach to your posts I sometimes miss your coffee face. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Monday, December 15, 2025 7:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff Scrolling past THGR is easy. THGR, the problem with your formatting and signature is that you have one too many "endquotes". So when I erase all the crap that you attach to your posts I sometimes miss your coffee face. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Well, hubby and I got one more thing done today that hadn't been done for years: cleaning the ceiling fan/light fixture over the kitchen table. Thanks to his height he was able to reach up and remove T Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff the blades, LEDs, and bells for me to wash/ wipe, and then he put them up again. Tomorrow I'm going to get out the stepstool and finish cleaning. It was gross. I'm so glad it's done!
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Well, hubby and I got one more thing done today that hadn't been done for years: cleaning the ceiling fan/light fixture over the kitchen table. Thanks to his height he was able to reach up and remove T Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff the blades, LEDs, and bells for me to wash/ wipe, and then he put them up again. Tomorrow I'm going to get out the stepstool and finish cleaning. It was gross. I'm so glad it's done!
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Out and about in a bit. Need some groceries. So, what's for dinner? We has chicken soup yesterday. Back to the grind today. Today it's just chores and yardwork. Tomorrow the handyman will come by and finish the irrigation manifold,THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> OVERSIGHT SAYS DC POLICE CHIEF ‘UNDERMINED’ ACCURACY OF CRIME DATA (OR WHY CRIME STATS IN THE 2020'S ARE MEANINGLESS) REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Oversight says DC police chief ‘undermined’ accuracy of crime data (Or why crime stats in the 2020's are meaningless) POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:57 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 9 PAGE 1 of 1 PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE Monday, December 15, 2025 6:57 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3917280/oversight-dc-pol ice-pamela-smith-crime-data/ Yup. Crime has sure been down in Big Blue Shithole cities. Those numbers don't go up if you stop counting them. The only real question is, was this intentional, or did you racist Lefty idiots hire so many DEI mouth breathers after street-abortionist and serial killer George Floyd committed suicide that nobody in the Government knows how to count anymore? Maybe when Paul Krugman and Ed Kilgore are replaced with AI, they can get a job counting for the Government. They're both as thick as a brick, but I know those two fuckin' nerds can at least count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 12.15 18:57 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) Mon, December 15, 2025 19:06 - 6475 posts Russia Invades Ukraine. Again Mon, December 15, 2025 19:04 - 9573 posts Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Mon, December 15, 2025 18:58 - 54 posts Oversight says DC police chief ‘undermined’ accuracy of crime data (Or why crime stats in the 2020's are meaningless) Mon, December 15, 2025 18:57 - 1 posts Florida Sheriff Humiliates Philadelphia Gangbangin' Trash Teens Mon, December 15, 2025 18:55 - 6 posts Is Trump Nuts? Mon, December 15, 2025 18:43 - 1047 posts Trump is a Troll Mon, December 15, 2025 18:36 - 239 posts Youtube steals money and BigTech SocialMedia political censorship Mon, December 15, 2025 18:35 - 12 posts Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches Mon, December 15, 2025 18:33 - 1073 posts Why is Russia losing so much military equipment? Mon, December 15, 2025 17:34 - 80 posts So... Nobody wants to talk about the worst Presidential speech given in any living American's lifetime? Mon, December 15, 2025 16:45 - 89 posts All things Space Mon, December 15, 2025 16:40 - 374 posts VIEW MORE TOPICS FFF.NET SOCIAL All FIREFLY graphics and photos on this page are copyright 2002-2012 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. yay! But that won't keep me from doing more yardwork. Wednesday I have plans to go out for a late T-day/ B-day get together. Was supposed to be yesterday, but ... still recovering. So we thought Tuesday, but Tuesday Mr Handyman will be here. And, still recovering. By Wednesday I hope we'll be ready for a nice restaurant meal. Since I can't taste anything, the food doesn't matter. But I like to be out with people enjoying themselves. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Work on the stairs done for the day. Just one more coat to go and then some long curing time before I can put those treads down. No huge deal, just no walking on the THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> WHY DOES THUGR SHIT UP THE BOARD BY BUMPING HIS POINTLESS THREADS? REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:58 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 2618 PAGE 1 of 2 PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE Monday, March 11, 2024 2:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? The purpose is to bump down any and all pertinent, meaningful, or sensible threads (because he obviously will not be involved in any of those.) The main page only shows 5 threads. The sub board only shows 12 in the right side panel. So when a search engine archives a page, only those are captured. That way, no meaningful thread topics are collected, and the interwebs know that this site is populated by insipid Libtards. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Well THUGR ...? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 10:01 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Because he's a fucking idiot with Main Character Syndrome. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:52 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, if you have to bump your own threads so often, you should realize that nobody is interested in your "facts", because they aren't. Sixteen threads (two under the JJ sockpuppet) today? Seriously? What makes you think I'll look at more than one? If I want propaganda, I'll just go directly to the source: CNN, MSNB, WaPo, NYT etc. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:50 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. More thread bumping, THUGR? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please The thread topics are relevant to what is going on today. Many will quiet down when Trump loses the election and is in jail. Others when Russia crumbles. Even more when Trumps cronies stop getting indicted. Until then, oh well. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 8:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. Oh... and Russia isn't going anywhere either. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see THUGR is still beating that dead Qanon horse. Keep flailing away, son! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 10:24 AM JAYNEZTOWN So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 1:15 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? Yes. He's gone thru more than one combination of T,H,G, and R. I honestly don't remember how many so I always call him by the same name. Possibly it's more than one person, since the responses vary in spelling and coherence. But one poster usually posts cartoons. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 19, 2024 3:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN Books must be sold Zeihan has a drug-crack habit to support? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 20, 2024 12:35 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Some people sell worthless supplements, others sell worthless geopolitics? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, June 28, 2024 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 1:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN no person came in to post Counter Arguments....because TH is indeed crapping up the board? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:05 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:29 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. Regarding this, I will vouch for Ted that this is the truth. Even if I, personally, might have been confused about who was posting at one time or another with the name change, Ted never hid the fact of who was behind them to my recollection. At least not to me he didn't. My motivations for creating the 6ixStringJoker handle were due similarly to the antiquated nature of this forum and are constantly being misconstrued by Second whenver that gets stuck in his craw. He has claimed that it was a sockpuppet account (bad choice of name if that's the case), he has also claimed it is because I'm a fanatic over the movie Joker which I've watched one time when it was in theaters 5 years ago, and he's warped the timeline of the temporary name change to try to fit that narrative. It was just a card, and it was either that or King and even though 6ixStringKing would have rhymed, I don't like the sound of it and I don't consider myself very Kingly on my best days. I don't imagine anyone here would disagree with that. Ted probably hadn't done himself favors by making his names so short and completely different from one another (leading one to fairly easily make a claim that one was a sockpuppet), but I have zero recollection at least during my sobriety of Ted ever pretending to be somebody else under any of his names. Quote: That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. Ted doesn't know how to differentiate facts from The Narrative, and it would appear that even after what they've done to him with Joe Biden* for years, Ted's continued trust in the Media that's lied to him all this time indicates that this will probably never change. But he was not making sockpuppet accounts, and from my perspective there were no dubious motives behind his name changes. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:51 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 3:31 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Ted-Bot always had access. He was just crying in a corner with nothing in his hollowed out little brain cavity to post about. Ted is nothing but a propaganda machine and if they're not feeding him anything to signal-boost he has nothing to say since he is devoid of agency and free will. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:16 PM JAYNEZTOWN North and South did this since 1950s NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:43 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Translation: The Legacy Media had nothing to tell me for 2 weeks so my brain stopped working. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:57 PM JAYNEZTOWN taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 1:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? Ted-Bot's pronouns are It/Its. Wetware's pronouns also, are It/Its. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 1, 2024 8:26 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN He cannot think for himself, so he feels better by preventing others from social intercourse. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 9, 2024 9:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Quoting yourself, from the last post in the thread, which was posted by you, and nobody responded to, and adding nothing substantive - nothing at all, or just another pointless GIF, or a brief senseless few words. Looks like a bump, walks like a bump, talks like a bump, acts like a bump. must be a bump. Responding to the voices in your head doesn't really count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, August 26, 2024 8:50 AM JAYNEZTOWN more of those creepy Zeihan weirdo Stratfor videos coming NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, September 10, 2024 6:45 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: North and South did this since 1950s . Oh, I didn't see that It's kinda funny! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:44 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I think he must be butt hurt ... So many threads with so much cope. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:47 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK He's not half as desperate as Harris. I don't know what she was thinking showing up on FOX News. Biden* and Clinton never felt desperate enough to try that. I don't believe for a second they're going to allow her to go on Joe Rogan despite all the talk about it. That would be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy if she did. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 12:10 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, spamming the board. It would be one thing if he was bringing new info, but he's just bumping threads. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:43 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yup. He's back. Refused to take his lumps for 3 weeks, refused to even address his long-awaited major loss, and proving in the last 24 hours that he refuses to learn anything and he's just going to be a miserable little prick for another 4 years. Fuck 'em. Who cares. Can't fix stupid. -------------------------------------------------- Trump is fine. He is also your current President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 1, 2024 11:56 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Well, we had a respite for 3 weeks, but 6ix kept begging the trolls to return. That was apparently the time required to accomplish the mental pretzel gymnastics needed to reenforce his delusions. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:03 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see someone let THUGR out of his prison job this week. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:59 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK That clickbait ain't going to watch itself. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR is spamming the board again. Son, you're doing an awesome job, but you're gonna have to work harder to catch up to JAYNZE: 87(!) bumps in two days. 87!!! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump-brain DURRRRRRRRRRR Ted is just brain damaged beyond repair at this point. And his personal attacks on Brenda are just typical white Liberal college "educated" behavior. Nobody can ever possibly live up to their Purity Tests. Even the people they supposedly "represent" in their tireless quest for likes and good boy points for those dopamine hits they're all addicted to. It's really funny when white college educated liberals actually find out what minorities think about them. The minorities usually end up hating them more than the white people on the side of sanity do. They really have no clue. A big part of that is because they're all upper-middle class and they get to live in the areas with the greatest school districts and lowest crime rates in the country and never did an honest day's work in their lives. I guaranty you that every single white person working for the NYT, MSNBC and CNN combined has spent less time collectively working minimum or near minimum wage jobs with minorities and getting to know them on a personal level than I did in a single month of working overnight at KMart. And some of them are still trying to force that LatinX label and getting it to stick on Mexican Americans who hate it. Yanno... the same people who go around everyday saying that voter ID is racist because black people are incapable of getting a photo ID. Sad. Good thing most of them who write for a living are losing their jobs and will no longer be able to influence culture and politics going forward. They're all relics of the world from a year ago that no longer exists and they will not be missed. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:42 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Why, THGR? Why? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:50 PM THG Keep it real please Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:32 PM THG Keep it real please Without failure every time I point out Gilligan is dumb; he proves me right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:33 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:34 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Dude has been arrested 4 times for felony charges before this latest incident in Colorado and released without bail every time. There is a video of him chasing after school children with a plastic bag and trying to capture one of them with it. He's changed his name to Carmella and identifies as a woman. What's not to get, Ted? You stupid, stupid fuck. Your party is dead. Forever. P.S. You think Neil would fuck her? I bet he would, but only if his new illegal alien invader voodoo priestess is pegging him from behind. Neil's dick doesn't work unless his prostate is being tickled at the same time by big fat girl cock. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Neil tells his new voodoo priestess girlfriend that he needs to choke the chicken and goes to the bathroom. When he exits the bathroom, Carmella was choking the life out of a literal chicken. Confused, he asks Carmella what the hell "she" is doing... "You said time to choke chicken. I thought that meant dinner time." We're shipping them all out, Faggot Ted. And there isn't a goddamned thing you can do about it. How's that feel? You've never felt more impotent in your life than you do right now. That's how Neil has felt every time he's tried to have sex without a big fat girl cock tickling his prostate. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 10:10 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin istration-cut-783-million-of-research-funding-in-anti-dei-push/ar-AA1KYRNC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=f9d98055df554ca9a46f53945f594cc0&ei=21 T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 11:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Science does matter. Neil is an actor, and a very poor one at that. Why does everybody you associate with suck so bad? You're all like flies on shit. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 12:06 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Why, THGR? Why? THUGR: Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addres your comment aptly. Too funny.. SIX: People stopped caring about what this idiot [de Grasse Tyson] 2thinks 10 years ago. THGR: Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please Quote: He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Quote: The [2026 budget] proposal — which expands on topline numbers released earlier in the month — calls for reducing the National Science Foundation's budget by 57%, the National Institutes of Health’s budget by roughly 40%, and NASA's science budget by 47%. The Department of Energy's Office of Science faces a 14% cut, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology would see a 28% reduction. What I think about this is complicated. I used to work on a Federal health science grant years ago, doing what I thought was potentially significant work, attempting to understand why victims of trauma could come thru stabilization and surgery and appear to be doing well, only to succumb three weeks later. But so many grants go to university PhD- factories, where great deal of effort goes into trying to find some tiny niche of research that nobody has written a paper on before, just to do a piece of research that nobody will ever notice and grab that PhD. I think we overproduce PhDs. And I think that grants should be reserved for meaningful research. Quote: “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson youtube. com/watch?v=mEOeCi8pjog SIX: Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. I also know, THGR, that you don't have the faintest idea what science is. Among other things, you have to ASK QUESTIONS, PAY ATTENTION TO REALITY, AND THINK DIFFERENTLY IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MEANINGFUL DISCOVERIES. SIX, you don't know what science is either. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Just as an aside... I have a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Physics. But I supervised people with BS, MS, and PhD degrees, and over the years supervised about 40 different degreed chemists. People were hired thru a process that began with a written chemistry test followed by competitive interviews. In our lab, it didn't matter how advanced your degree was, we were all hired thru the same process and started at the same level of work. In my group, everyone got a chance at a project as well as routine work, and if they were adept at problem solving they were assigned more projects. Most people had one area that they were particularly good at: some excelled at instrument repair, some at programming, some at wet chemistry, some at method development, some at field emergency response etc. And, again, FWIW, I had extensive cross-training going on. Our group was a kind of "Jack of all trades" group, we never knew what kinds of samples would arrive or what we needed to do with them and at what level of emergency, so for scheduling purposes I needed three people capable of running each analysis on any particular instrument- one at the expert level, one at the intermediate level, and one at the routine level. Cross training also promoted better group dynamics- they functioned as a team and it made the group stronger. Promotion was by competitive interview panel. Since promotion depended on, among other things, technical problem solving skills, the more projects you completed the better your chance of promotion. So, having worked for decades with people with all degrees at all levels of work, it seems to me that people with BS degrees were just as capable of problem- solving as people with PhDs. PhD degrees didn't seem to improve problem-solving capacity. The people who seemed mentally less flexible were often those with MS degrees. IDK what it is about that intermediate degree but it often seems to attract, or maybe create, people who just want to be told what to do. Point being PhD is not a guarantee of inventiveness or problem solving. It's unfortunate that so many companies and institutions require it. So, back to the function of science grants ... Universities depend on them, and student tuition, for funding. Whatever grant the researcher get, the University takes roughly 30% off the top for "administration". The researcher might be doing groundbreaking research, but the graduate students ... who are basically cheap labor, since they have to pay tuition to stay in research ... have to find some area in their advisor's field where they can carve out a paper for publication. Researchers are like legislators: They're judged on the quantity of output, not on the quality or impact. It's called 'publish or perish'. Most publications will have no impact on the furtherence of the state of knowledge, almost NONE will be repeated and it's quite possible that many aren't repeatable. There's got to be a better way to fund research, and a better way to get better research. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN Spending went crazy with 'The Bill' and cuts have been ordered While I have disagreed with THUGR, or THG or whatever the Latest Name ...I agree and support criticism of Trump where science cuts have happened Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please I don't think the 'Exodus' is so real, yet there is something There is cutting but I'm not sure if it is that big however something was reported, I'm not sure how true or at what scale cuts are happening some news examples France draws US scientists amid Trump cuts but slashes €1bn at home https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250516-france-draws-us-scientist s-amid-trump-cuts-but-slashes-%E2%82%AC1bn-from-research-budget bla bla ‘I’m scared of fascism’ Leading centers in cities like Barcelona and Madrid have been receiving dozens of applications from researchers who fear loss of funds or deportation. A protest in Boston in early March in support of science following Trump's budget cuts. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scientists-who-w ant-to-move-to-europe-because-of-trump-speak-out-im-scared-of-fascism.html There might be an explanation here, citizenship issues awaiting a decision or resolution; these might be immigrants with their VISA status in Limbo Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5368132/us-researchers-scientists -apply-french-university-program Also there is an AI race thread a 'Science Given the Boot' / NASA Exploration Futurism type thread This might be a Chatbot article the image looks somewhat AI and as an article it reads as if it was generated computer like 'A Scientific Exodus: A Nation at Risk of Losing Its Edge' https://theweeklytelescope.com/2025/04/19/a-scientific-exodus-a-nation -at-risk-of-losing-its-edge/ but you get A LOT of this stuff in feeds Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-administrator-says-the-ag ency-will-move-aside-from-climate-sciences-to-focus-on-exploring-moon-and-mars info on cuts https://www.planetary.org/articles/billions-wasted-mysteries-unsolved- the-missions-nasa-may-be-forced-to-abandon Firstpost is an Indian Hindu First news website owned by Network18 Nasa halting 41 key missions due to proposed cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961 https://www.firstpost.com/world/nasa-donald-trump-us-china-india-space -13927062.html The military element of 'Space' seems to be expanding with 'The Space Force' but meanwhile NASA has been ordered to stay ahead of the Chinese, put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon and build an exploration base on Mars before China does it NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 08.21 23:22 SIGNYM 08.22 00:06 SIGNYM 08.22 14:00 JAYNEZTOWN 08.22 14:17 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:53 SIGNYM 08.22 16:57 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:59 SIGNYM 12.15 18:58 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! 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I might see about going to my friend's to help him tonight or tomorrow night since we didn't get together over the weekend. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot you had that whole "paint durability" issue... er... covered. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Work on the stairs done for the day. Just one more coat to go and then some long curing time before I can put those treads down. No huge deal, just no walking on the THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> WHY DOES THUGR SHIT UP THE BOARD BY BUMPING HIS POINTLESS THREADS? REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:58 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 2618 PAGE 1 of 2 PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE Monday, March 11, 2024 2:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? The purpose is to bump down any and all pertinent, meaningful, or sensible threads (because he obviously will not be involved in any of those.) The main page only shows 5 threads. The sub board only shows 12 in the right side panel. So when a search engine archives a page, only those are captured. That way, no meaningful thread topics are collected, and the interwebs know that this site is populated by insipid Libtards. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Well THUGR ...? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 10:01 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Because he's a fucking idiot with Main Character Syndrome. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:52 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, if you have to bump your own threads so often, you should realize that nobody is interested in your "facts", because they aren't. Sixteen threads (two under the JJ sockpuppet) today? Seriously? What makes you think I'll look at more than one? If I want propaganda, I'll just go directly to the source: CNN, MSNB, WaPo, NYT etc. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:50 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. More thread bumping, THUGR? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please The thread topics are relevant to what is going on today. Many will quiet down when Trump loses the election and is in jail. Others when Russia crumbles. Even more when Trumps cronies stop getting indicted. Until then, oh well. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 8:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. Oh... and Russia isn't going anywhere either. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see THUGR is still beating that dead Qanon horse. Keep flailing away, son! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 10:24 AM JAYNEZTOWN So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 1:15 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? Yes. He's gone thru more than one combination of T,H,G, and R. I honestly don't remember how many so I always call him by the same name. Possibly it's more than one person, since the responses vary in spelling and coherence. But one poster usually posts cartoons. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 19, 2024 3:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN Books must be sold Zeihan has a drug-crack habit to support? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 20, 2024 12:35 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Some people sell worthless supplements, others sell worthless geopolitics? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, June 28, 2024 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 1:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN no person came in to post Counter Arguments....because TH is indeed crapping up the board? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:05 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:29 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. Regarding this, I will vouch for Ted that this is the truth. Even if I, personally, might have been confused about who was posting at one time or another with the name change, Ted never hid the fact of who was behind them to my recollection. At least not to me he didn't. My motivations for creating the 6ixStringJoker handle were due similarly to the antiquated nature of this forum and are constantly being misconstrued by Second whenver that gets stuck in his craw. He has claimed that it was a sockpuppet account (bad choice of name if that's the case), he has also claimed it is because I'm a fanatic over the movie Joker which I've watched one time when it was in theaters 5 years ago, and he's warped the timeline of the temporary name change to try to fit that narrative. It was just a card, and it was either that or King and even though 6ixStringKing would have rhymed, I don't like the sound of it and I don't consider myself very Kingly on my best days. I don't imagine anyone here would disagree with that. Ted probably hadn't done himself favors by making his names so short and completely different from one another (leading one to fairly easily make a claim that one was a sockpuppet), but I have zero recollection at least during my sobriety of Ted ever pretending to be somebody else under any of his names. Quote: That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. Ted doesn't know how to differentiate facts from The Narrative, and it would appear that even after what they've done to him with Joe Biden* for years, Ted's continued trust in the Media that's lied to him all this time indicates that this will probably never change. But he was not making sockpuppet accounts, and from my perspective there were no dubious motives behind his name changes. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:51 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 3:31 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Ted-Bot always had access. He was just crying in a corner with nothing in his hollowed out little brain cavity to post about. Ted is nothing but a propaganda machine and if they're not feeding him anything to signal-boost he has nothing to say since he is devoid of agency and free will. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:16 PM JAYNEZTOWN North and South did this since 1950s NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:43 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Translation: The Legacy Media had nothing to tell me for 2 weeks so my brain stopped working. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:57 PM JAYNEZTOWN taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 1:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? Ted-Bot's pronouns are It/Its. Wetware's pronouns also, are It/Its. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 1, 2024 8:26 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN He cannot think for himself, so he feels better by preventing others from social intercourse. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 9, 2024 9:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Quoting yourself, from the last post in the thread, which was posted by you, and nobody responded to, and adding nothing substantive - nothing at all, or just another pointless GIF, or a brief senseless few words. Looks like a bump, walks like a bump, talks like a bump, acts like a bump. must be a bump. Responding to the voices in your head doesn't really count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, August 26, 2024 8:50 AM JAYNEZTOWN more of those creepy Zeihan weirdo Stratfor videos coming NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, September 10, 2024 6:45 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: North and South did this since 1950s . Oh, I didn't see that It's kinda funny! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:44 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I think he must be butt hurt ... So many threads with so much cope. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:47 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK He's not half as desperate as Harris. I don't know what she was thinking showing up on FOX News. Biden* and Clinton never felt desperate enough to try that. I don't believe for a second they're going to allow her to go on Joe Rogan despite all the talk about it. That would be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy if she did. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 12:10 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, spamming the board. It would be one thing if he was bringing new info, but he's just bumping threads. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:43 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yup. He's back. Refused to take his lumps for 3 weeks, refused to even address his long-awaited major loss, and proving in the last 24 hours that he refuses to learn anything and he's just going to be a miserable little prick for another 4 years. Fuck 'em. Who cares. Can't fix stupid. -------------------------------------------------- Trump is fine. He is also your current President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 1, 2024 11:56 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Well, we had a respite for 3 weeks, but 6ix kept begging the trolls to return. That was apparently the time required to accomplish the mental pretzel gymnastics needed to reenforce his delusions. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:03 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see someone let THUGR out of his prison job this week. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:59 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK That clickbait ain't going to watch itself. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR is spamming the board again. Son, you're doing an awesome job, but you're gonna have to work harder to catch up to JAYNZE: 87(!) bumps in two days. 87!!! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump-brain DURRRRRRRRRRR Ted is just brain damaged beyond repair at this point. And his personal attacks on Brenda are just typical white Liberal college "educated" behavior. Nobody can ever possibly live up to their Purity Tests. Even the people they supposedly "represent" in their tireless quest for likes and good boy points for those dopamine hits they're all addicted to. It's really funny when white college educated liberals actually find out what minorities think about them. The minorities usually end up hating them more than the white people on the side of sanity do. They really have no clue. A big part of that is because they're all upper-middle class and they get to live in the areas with the greatest school districts and lowest crime rates in the country and never did an honest day's work in their lives. I guaranty you that every single white person working for the NYT, MSNBC and CNN combined has spent less time collectively working minimum or near minimum wage jobs with minorities and getting to know them on a personal level than I did in a single month of working overnight at KMart. And some of them are still trying to force that LatinX label and getting it to stick on Mexican Americans who hate it. Yanno... the same people who go around everyday saying that voter ID is racist because black people are incapable of getting a photo ID. Sad. Good thing most of them who write for a living are losing their jobs and will no longer be able to influence culture and politics going forward. They're all relics of the world from a year ago that no longer exists and they will not be missed. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:42 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Why, THGR? Why? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:50 PM THG Keep it real please Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:32 PM THG Keep it real please Without failure every time I point out Gilligan is dumb; he proves me right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:33 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:34 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Dude has been arrested 4 times for felony charges before this latest incident in Colorado and released without bail every time. There is a video of him chasing after school children with a plastic bag and trying to capture one of them with it. He's changed his name to Carmella and identifies as a woman. What's not to get, Ted? You stupid, stupid fuck. Your party is dead. Forever. P.S. You think Neil would fuck her? I bet he would, but only if his new illegal alien invader voodoo priestess is pegging him from behind. Neil's dick doesn't work unless his prostate is being tickled at the same time by big fat girl cock. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Neil tells his new voodoo priestess girlfriend that he needs to choke the chicken and goes to the bathroom. When he exits the bathroom, Carmella was choking the life out of a literal chicken. Confused, he asks Carmella what the hell "she" is doing... "You said time to choke chicken. I thought that meant dinner time." We're shipping them all out, Faggot Ted. And there isn't a goddamned thing you can do about it. How's that feel? You've never felt more impotent in your life than you do right now. That's how Neil has felt every time he's tried to have sex without a big fat girl cock tickling his prostate. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 10:10 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin istration-cut-783-million-of-research-funding-in-anti-dei-push/ar-AA1KYRNC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=f9d98055df554ca9a46f53945f594cc0&ei=21 T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 11:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Science does matter. Neil is an actor, and a very poor one at that. Why does everybody you associate with suck so bad? You're all like flies on shit. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 12:06 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Why, THGR? Why? THUGR: Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addres your comment aptly. Too funny.. SIX: People stopped caring about what this idiot [de Grasse Tyson] 2thinks 10 years ago. THGR: Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please Quote: He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Quote: The [2026 budget] proposal — which expands on topline numbers released earlier in the month — calls for reducing the National Science Foundation's budget by 57%, the National Institutes of Health’s budget by roughly 40%, and NASA's science budget by 47%. The Department of Energy's Office of Science faces a 14% cut, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology would see a 28% reduction. What I think about this is complicated. I used to work on a Federal health science grant years ago, doing what I thought was potentially significant work, attempting to understand why victims of trauma could come thru stabilization and surgery and appear to be doing well, only to succumb three weeks later. But so many grants go to university PhD- factories, where great deal of effort goes into trying to find some tiny niche of research that nobody has written a paper on before, just to do a piece of research that nobody will ever notice and grab that PhD. I think we overproduce PhDs. And I think that grants should be reserved for meaningful research. Quote: “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson youtube. com/watch?v=mEOeCi8pjog SIX: Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. I also know, THGR, that you don't have the faintest idea what science is. Among other things, you have to ASK QUESTIONS, PAY ATTENTION TO REALITY, AND THINK DIFFERENTLY IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MEANINGFUL DISCOVERIES. SIX, you don't know what science is either. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Just as an aside... I have a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Physics. But I supervised people with BS, MS, and PhD degrees, and over the years supervised about 40 different degreed chemists. People were hired thru a process that began with a written chemistry test followed by competitive interviews. In our lab, it didn't matter how advanced your degree was, we were all hired thru the same process and started at the same level of work. In my group, everyone got a chance at a project as well as routine work, and if they were adept at problem solving they were assigned more projects. Most people had one area that they were particularly good at: some excelled at instrument repair, some at programming, some at wet chemistry, some at method development, some at field emergency response etc. And, again, FWIW, I had extensive cross-training going on. Our group was a kind of "Jack of all trades" group, we never knew what kinds of samples would arrive or what we needed to do with them and at what level of emergency, so for scheduling purposes I needed three people capable of running each analysis on any particular instrument- one at the expert level, one at the intermediate level, and one at the routine level. Cross training also promoted better group dynamics- they functioned as a team and it made the group stronger. Promotion was by competitive interview panel. Since promotion depended on, among other things, technical problem solving skills, the more projects you completed the better your chance of promotion. So, having worked for decades with people with all degrees at all levels of work, it seems to me that people with BS degrees were just as capable of problem- solving as people with PhDs. PhD degrees didn't seem to improve problem-solving capacity. The people who seemed mentally less flexible were often those with MS degrees. IDK what it is about that intermediate degree but it often seems to attract, or maybe create, people who just want to be told what to do. Point being PhD is not a guarantee of inventiveness or problem solving. It's unfortunate that so many companies and institutions require it. So, back to the function of science grants ... Universities depend on them, and student tuition, for funding. Whatever grant the researcher get, the University takes roughly 30% off the top for "administration". The researcher might be doing groundbreaking research, but the graduate students ... who are basically cheap labor, since they have to pay tuition to stay in research ... have to find some area in their advisor's field where they can carve out a paper for publication. Researchers are like legislators: They're judged on the quantity of output, not on the quality or impact. It's called 'publish or perish'. Most publications will have no impact on the furtherence of the state of knowledge, almost NONE will be repeated and it's quite possible that many aren't repeatable. There's got to be a better way to fund research, and a better way to get better research. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN Spending went crazy with 'The Bill' and cuts have been ordered While I have disagreed with THUGR, or THG or whatever the Latest Name ...I agree and support criticism of Trump where science cuts have happened Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please I don't think the 'Exodus' is so real, yet there is something There is cutting but I'm not sure if it is that big however something was reported, I'm not sure how true or at what scale cuts are happening some news examples France draws US scientists amid Trump cuts but slashes €1bn at home https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250516-france-draws-us-scientist s-amid-trump-cuts-but-slashes-%E2%82%AC1bn-from-research-budget bla bla ‘I’m scared of fascism’ Leading centers in cities like Barcelona and Madrid have been receiving dozens of applications from researchers who fear loss of funds or deportation. A protest in Boston in early March in support of science following Trump's budget cuts. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scientists-who-w ant-to-move-to-europe-because-of-trump-speak-out-im-scared-of-fascism.html There might be an explanation here, citizenship issues awaiting a decision or resolution; these might be immigrants with their VISA status in Limbo Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5368132/us-researchers-scientists -apply-french-university-program Also there is an AI race thread a 'Science Given the Boot' / NASA Exploration Futurism type thread This might be a Chatbot article the image looks somewhat AI and as an article it reads as if it was generated computer like 'A Scientific Exodus: A Nation at Risk of Losing Its Edge' https://theweeklytelescope.com/2025/04/19/a-scientific-exodus-a-nation -at-risk-of-losing-its-edge/ but you get A LOT of this stuff in feeds Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-administrator-says-the-ag ency-will-move-aside-from-climate-sciences-to-focus-on-exploring-moon-and-mars info on cuts https://www.planetary.org/articles/billions-wasted-mysteries-unsolved- the-missions-nasa-may-be-forced-to-abandon Firstpost is an Indian Hindu First news website owned by Network18 Nasa halting 41 key missions due to proposed cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961 https://www.firstpost.com/world/nasa-donald-trump-us-china-india-space -13927062.html The military element of 'Space' seems to be expanding with 'The Space Force' but meanwhile NASA has been ordered to stay ahead of the Chinese, put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon and build an exploration base on Mars before China does it NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 08.21 23:22 SIGNYM 08.22 00:06 SIGNYM 08.22 14:00 JAYNEZTOWN 08.22 14:17 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:53 SIGNYM 08.22 16:57 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:59 SIGNYM 12.15 18:58 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! 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I might see about going to my friend's to help him tonight or tomorrow night since we didn't get together over the weekend. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that.
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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well.
Quote:I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair.
Quote:Sorry about that line.
Quote:That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice.
Quote:No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow.
Quote:Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on.
Quote:No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't.
Quote:Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures.
Quote:Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts.
Quote:Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way.
Quote:I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm.
Quote:Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 1:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novels written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but itTHG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> SHOOTINGS! REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Shootings! POSTED BY: WISHIMAY UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 06:08 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 23555 PAGE 1 of 4 PREV PAGE1234NEXT PAGE Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:34 PM WISHIMAY It's not the media, it's not politics, it's not black or white or alien, it's not the guns, it's not games, or movies, or additives in food... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3343309/At-TWENTY-people-gunne d-California-mass-shooting-police-search-three-suspects.html IT'S PSYHOTIC PEOPLE. Predominantly psychotic MEN people. Why is this soooo hard to get? That G-23 Paxilon Hyrochorate is lookin' better and better and betterer.... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:05 PM JAYNEZTOWN EDIT 'Tashfeen Malik' Female Terrorist Turns out one of the mass murdering terrorist killers is a woman, Wishway know for posting political threats to her fellow Americans is proven to be batshit insane retarded once again? Yes shooting trending on twitter and reddit possible explosive device..... https://twitter.com/RWSurferGirl/status/672155063075209216 https://twitter.com/492_AMU/status/672148045233025024 https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3v6jw5/mass_shooting_active_sho oter_in_california_san/ https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3v6iq7/authorities_respond_to_2 0_victim_shooting/ https://www.reddit.com/live/w0nn1o5hu90y https://twitter.com/latimes/status/672147970075320323 https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/672145715045507072 Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: IT'S PSYHOTIC PEOPLE. Predominantly psychotic MEN people. Don't jump to conclusions yet, the scumbag murderers might have loony political motivation, the barbaric killers might have have some wacko god or religion that inspires them to murder, they might be on drugs or a crzy ganglnd mafia hit gone wrong....you just don't know yet...there is even a small precentage of possiblity it could be a woman with some involvement, you know women have killed too? Catherine the Great? Myra Hindley? the European Countess Báthory? Delphine LaLaurie? Aileen Wuornos?...women historically have killed too and even the recent woman in Paris France who suicide bombed herself....although men are far more likely to commit violent crime it is a sad fact that women can also be equally able of doing such evils Before saying anything as true I would say wait for the reports from police, FBI, paramedic...wait until news interviews the victims the firefighters helping on the scene before you draw a picture The twitter shows the buzz from newsfeeds, Cop to Dispatch Radio on Reddit website gives a feeling for what may be going on You can read police dispatch or twitter witness...to develop a picture but I would say We will have to wait for official statements NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:09 PM WISHIMAY P.S. that aside.... I have a problem... ironically with a female psychotic! I have a neighbor(ish) and for two years I was cordial to as I walked the dog past their house. One day she decided that I was the only person around that she could "use". She calls EVERY DAY (I've stopped picking up the phone) and leaves messages that I should call her, even though I've made it very clear I DO NOT CALL ANYONE. I don't even call family if I can avoid it. Her husband is a mean drunk and he gets drunk EVERY holiday, and last year shot out a window throwing a gun at her. She shows up at my house constantly wanting rides to go get her numerous medications. (I don't know why but she doesn't drive) I don't want to get in an argument with her as it is very clear she is unstable, and she has proven she will not hesitate to confront my daughter over perceived slights... Besides MOVING, do you have any suggestions? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:20 PM JAYNEZTOWN reports of nearby Shopping center - shots fired Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Besides MOVING, do you have any suggestions? they sound too stupid to grow up, so find a way of informing them to get a divorce, people in a toxic relationship just spread their bad vibes and spread noise pollution to everyone around them...if they seperate they might have better lives NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:15 PM JAYNEZTOWN 11 o clock shooting. active shooter situation. long rifle "shell casings" found? killers wore body armor, masks, camo army jacket? 3 people entered large facility, busy building. 14 badly wounded. massive medic aid response. suspects may have fled, may be at large, suspects spotted in black SUV. no motive at this time. wounded are being extrated. FBI local police working to find suspects, it may or it may not be terrorist incident. Reports 14 dead. do not yet have information from witnesses on whether suspects said anything during shooting. Suspects with long-gun have fled. People who done killing came prepared, dressed prepared, weapons prepared. no indication yet of global terrorism but at minimum may be a domestic terrorist type situation. men arrived on a mission. reports say masks were involved Suspects STILL at large. PRESS CONFERENCE taking place in other news Dow Jones industrial average lost 158.67 points, or 0.9 percent, to 17,729.68. the Nasdaq composite index fell 33.08 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,123.22. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:52 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: ...although men are far more likely to commit violent crime it is a sad fact that women can also be equally able of doing such evils... Pleeeease. If you even skimmed the reports of the shooters, armor, ak-47s- you know these are guys. And women are just as ABLE, but DON'T. Says a lot. STOP GIVING TESTOSTERONE A PASS. And I literally mean that. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:54 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: they sound too stupid to grow up, so find a way of informing them to get a divorce,] Neither of them has anywhere to go. And she would try to move in here, it ain't happenin... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:11 PM JAYNEZTOWN Yes reports are of 3 men, three armed males on the run Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: And women are just as ABLE, but DON'T. Says a lot. STOP GIVING TESTOSTERONE A PASS. And I literally mean that. what are you ranting about now women do ocassional make violent crime, I recently read of an Egyptian woman beating her sinful daughter to death with a rock because she sinned by hanging around with boys, I have read another of a Palestinian mother putting and plastic bag over her daughters head and smothering her because her dress shamed the family, another of a mother and father killing their son who wanted to leave islam....women have done violent crime, they do it less than men but they still do it I think you need to get over yourself, get over whatever wacko feminist views you got because girls and women also do crime, although statistically its a lower percent than men people with ovaries and estrogen are also able to do violence Female islamic terrorists are blowing people up in France / Europe ? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN I think they might have got one or got them http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/13038/web http://www.flightradar24.com/N404KR/826791d NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:18 PM JAYNEZTOWN sh!*t i heard 'officer down' hope its going to be ok :( NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN 'Requesting medical aid' NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN suspected SUV come to a stop NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:23 PM JAYNEZTOWN Officer hit? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:27 PM JAYNEZTOWN *heavy gun fire* sounds ? setting up perimiter chopper noise? talking about a school NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:30 PM JAYNEZTOWN Police in foot-pursuit of a suspect NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:36 PM JAYNEZTOWN Pipe bomb located shots fired again? SWAT team needed, (radio chatter is very busy hard for me to pick it all up) somebody running through backyards call for ballistic shield team need support NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:51 PM JAYNEZTOWN Someone in church one subject on 2nd level of building Cops now calling houses near were a bomb was found somebody running across airfield with phone camo pants and orange shirt/suit? behind church cop hear female arabic voice bomb squad in bomb disposal called NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:53 PM JAYNEZTOWN Good news! Sounds like they got him surrounded! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:54 PM JAYNEZTOWN Houses being evacuated NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:06 PM JAYNEZTOWN Talk of a latino man, shaved head hispanic looking man 3rd man being persued AR-15 gun picked up no further explosive devices Code 3 'lights and siren'? 'no other explosive devices located' another suspicious subject detained other locations being looked at? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:08 PM JAYNEZTOWN Officer injury not life threatening NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:10 PM JAYNEZTOWN One Subject detained NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:15 PM JAYNEZTOWN NBC tweet One officer injured, non-life-threatening, during police shootout with suspect Trump twitter - 'Police and law enforcement seem to have killed one of the California shooters and are in a shootout with the others. Go police' ABC news Two suspects being "dealt with" Fox says Suspect may be barricaded in church LA County Sheriff's retweets SB county Suspicious vehicle reported to dispatch seaScanner911 says 4 officers injured. 8 people transported to hospital Marc Brown 'Possible additional suspect still inside the black SUV' Michelle Tuzee twitter 'Bullet riddled dark SUV' Suspicious two long beards drove by location twice Call for public to avoid the area Gunfire exchanged w/suspects during follow up invest patrol reports, dealing with active shooter in area locking perimeter down Residents told stay indoors Other residents being evacuated helicopter view NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:34 PM JAYNEZTOWN Snapchat has audio of gun battle in San Bernardino SB county 'We are asking that all people in the SB area south of San Bernardino Ave east of Mt. View stay in their homes w/doors locked & secure' Scanner is quiet now Dispatch reports: Radio difficulties. u can decode cop radio messages here http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:35 PM WISHIMAY Did you just confuse us with Twitter? #ummmno? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:38 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: people with ovaries and estrogen are also able to do violence ....although statistically its a lower percent than men See, I don't even have to make my own point. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:44 PM WISHIMAY In 2013 there were 102,400 adult females in local jails in the United States, and 111,300 adult females in state and federal prisons In 2013 there were 628,900 adult males in local jails in the United States, and 1,463,500 adult males in state and federal prisons 1 to 6 1 to 14 Testosterone IS the problem. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 8:10 PM JAYNEZTOWN News media reports its a 'dispute' and not an act of global terrorism news reporter says not terrorism but a gun event after 'argument at a party' Buildings being shutdown, Offices at SB Airport are also closed, suspicious person near airport, another report of suspect running near airport EMTs need right away someone hit by vehicle yard to yard search Drone in the air? bomb threat at Med Center Fox17 comments on Scanner Report suspect Farooq Saiid or Farouk Sayed http://www.weaselzippers.us/243182-despite-no-previous-threats-against -san-bernadino-homeland-security-sure-scrambled-this-plane-pretty-quickly-huh/ Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: 1 to 6 1 to 14 Would you also like to break this down by Race Ethnicity, what if you discover Negroid Black Females are doing Violent crimes more often than White Males or Yellow Mongoild Oriental Men....would you change the subject? two suspects dead? one is male, one female explosion in a rear alley, child screaming, fire in D Avenue 20 victims reported, according to Fire Department Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=807_1449091802 chopper pilot says one of the dead suspects may be a female, unconfirmed report, but he says he saw the suspect wearing a red bra. air view of car https:// i.imgur.com/ e7FUVft.png IED found? Police being pulled back FBI will be taking over Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: In 2013 there were 628,900 adult males in local jails in the United States, and 1,463,500 adult males in state and federal prisons Do you want to really look at data. How willing is your brain to explore some facts? How does it break down by culture and race? Do Mexican women, Black women, islamic women do more crime than White or Yellow men from the Orient...you have freedom of speech correct but is this subject to taboo How about Sporty Tranny 'Women' those who steroid munch try to look like Sir-He-naaa da Penis Gorilliams She-Hulk person...are they more Testosterone than White Men or Yellow Man? I know you have a things for transexual rights lately. Are Black Females doing more murder and assault and theft and vandalism than White Men?...but if you seen these stats Would you make excuses for the Black Female Criminal and twist your brain and find a way to blame 'White Men'? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 8:34 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Farooq Saeed. Name of one of the suspected shooters. Make of that what you will. * that name is now being said to have " washed out ", and isn't being sought as being connected , though terrorism is NOT being ruled out. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:21 PM JAYNEZTOWN Yes I've seen and heard Farooq Saeed in San Bernardino with Suspect Muslim Female....I hear it on scanner, seen the name on twitter Then I seen the media try say he wasn't a muslim later he was a muslim once again then it wasn't Saeed..... ....finally I see articles on this Saeed guy ...not sure what to make of the media frenzy NEWS: Police used a robot to search for possible explosive devices, and the police scanner noted of a possible IED.... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/they-just-sta rted-shooting-survivor-recounts-attack-n473181 Quote: Two possible suspects, a man and a woman, were shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with police hours after the after officers chased a vehicle that resembled one sought after the shooting, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters. A police officer was also hurt, but the injury was not life threatening, she said. The shooting erupted during a holiday party in a conference room. Fourteen people were killed. At least 10 of the 17 wounded are in critical condition. Authorities identified a possible suspect as Syed Farook and another as possibly his brother. Police shot two suspects after a high-speed chase in a shootout hours later. The suspects — a man and a woman — were killed. A third person seen fleeing from the scene of the shootout is in custody. A police officer was wounded in the shootout. FBI say shooting in California 'may or may not have been a terrorist attack' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12030160/Ca lifornia-shooting-Multiple-victims-reported-in-San-Bernardino-live.html Two law enforcement sources identified one of the suspects in the San Bernardino shooting as Syed Farook. According to public records, a Syed R. Farook worked as an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County. It's unclear whether that is the same person connected to the attack. The shooting occurred at an event for the county's public health department. Two other federal law enforcement sources, while not revealing the name of the suspect they were referring to, said he was an American citizen. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-shooting-li ve-updates-htmlstory.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:38 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by AURaptor: * that name is now being said to have " washed out ", and isn't being sought as being connected , though terrorism is NOT being ruled out. they forgot how to do their news, quick fax them those charts Fox's Rod Wheeler was on, he's waiting for reports of someone of the killers saying the words 'Alley Ackbor' or crying out the words Admiral Akbar before he can call it - if those words were not said then its work place violece if those words got said then its terrorism....media is a joke now, they are unable to think for themselves NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:11 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! They got the name backwards. Saeed Farooq is now the name which HAS been released. 2 are dead, and apparently there's no 3rd individual. Good grief. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:53 PM WISHIMAY This is the most bungled media whitewashing I have ever seen... Right now it could've been Mr. Snuffleupagus and Mrs. White in the Vestibule with the semi-automatic Candelabra... But we know there was a semi-automatic SOMETHING. THAT'S the important part NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:17 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur -on-average-every-day-records-show.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well How Often Do Mass Shootings Occur? On Average, Every Day, Records Show SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 2:39 AM JO753 rezident owtsidr I hav the perfect way to chase her away. Start talking to her about Nooalf. Call her about it! Nok on her door! YOU bekum the pest to be avoided. ---------------------------- DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early http://www.nooalf.com NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:09 AM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Husband and wife death team, it seems. They wore body armor and go-pro cams. Yep. Just your typical work place violence. Nothing to see here. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:45 AM RAHLMACLAREN "Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb How much do we know about the explosives that were found? Is there any robotic means to remotely dissect the bombs, so things can be more thoroughly investigated? A possible missed opportunity. How many reliable witnesses counted three suspects? *Also, I want to know EXACTLY what the argument at the party was about. It is scary how this shit was going down during my first viewing of Fahrenheit 9/11. *ETA Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:40 AM JAYNEZTOWN Media drops ball PBS NewsHour has a half hour of CAIR,.....big murder spree, IEDs, mass shooting, police gun battles and PBS runs straight to CAIR to ask why!? is it islamophobia!? why? some in-law is speaking and you see the CAIR banners “I have no idea ... Why would he do something like this.” CAIR recap: (rational wiki CAIR, is, depending on who you ask, either a human rights and civil liberties organization founded to protect the rights of Islamics or a Muslim Islamist lobby group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and terror group Hamas. It should be noted that it's perfectly possible for both to be true. CAIR has been listed as a terrorist organization by the UAE, mainly due to an ongoing pissing match between the UAE and the Muslim Brotherhood, whom the UAE feels is giving CAIR their marching orders. ) Here we go, people come to their own conclusions Quote: http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1602506&page=28 Gonna be a workplace gun violence incident.... regardless of how many times a day they prayed first, or how long the radical islamists were planning it, or how many IEDs they found, or whether they were from Qatar or not. http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Lavender_Room_F 4/Mass_shooting_in_San_Bernardino%2C_12_dead_P5787531-7 According to one report there were two brothers. Both same initials, but different middle name starting with R. At press announcement for brother-in-law, a picture was shown of one brother, and they responded, no, that is the older brother. One was tax guy and other environmental inspector. Some stories conflate the two brothers. http://heavy.com/news/2015/12/syed-sayeed-farouk-farook-inland-regiona l-center-san-bernardino-shooting-suspect-gunman-name-identified-redlands-age-motive-photos-social-media-family-facebook-video-chase-shot-killed-dead/ Burguan said the suspects, wearing “assault-style” tactical clothing and armed with assault rifles and handguns, died at the scene. A suspicious device, possibly an explosive, was found near the car, according to police. A possible explosive device was also found inside the Inland Regional Center, police said. Police said the suspects fired at officers from the vehicle, and the officers returned fire. The SUV was riddled with bullets, and both of the suspects were killed. A police officer was also wounded during the shootout, but is expected to survive. http://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/off-topic-humor-discussion/226201- another-mass-shooting-now-san-bernardino-20-down-29.html This morning is the first that I'm really hearing about and looking into the whole events that unfolded yesterday, and here's what I've put together on my own: An American born devout Suuni muslim goes to Saudi Arabia for a month earlier this year and comes back with a wife he didn't previously mention, and together they shoot up his office Christmas party with ARs, pistols, IEDs, and extra mags (and possibly armored) chest rigs, before shooting it out with the cops after a brief chase. This isn't speculation as it's all been confirmed by multiple sources. I've had to put that together on my own because no MSM outlets will come out and say it like it is. Why strain at the neck to tap-dance around the issue this much? Are we really not going to address and continue to ignore the HUGE, GINORMOUS elephant in the room?? http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?481088-Mass-shooting- in-progress-San-Bernardino/page2 national gun control is the only answer. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/san-bernardino-ca/TRB1R1GSKPF4PEO9U PS.....The media is trying to play it down, but it is clear that Farook was extremely religious. http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/shooting-in-san-bernardino.282351/page-2 1 Syed Farook's wife's name: Tashfeen Malik. Half a dozen middle-eastern men going in and out of the condo in recent weeks, but neighbor didn't report out of fear of being called racist. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141277682 Apparently he met his wife/gf online and they both came back from Saudi Arabia http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/03/2-suspects-killed-shootout-san-be rnardino-massacre-14-killed/ Farook, who authorities said was born in Illinois, and raised in California and had worked as a $51,000-per-year restaurant inspector at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health for five years, was described by co-workers as a "devout" Muslim, who lived in a home in nearby Redlands, which sources described as "an IED factory." Bomb squads working with robots swept the home late into the night Wednesday, and witnesses reported hearing several explosions. Is CNN, is the ConfusedNoiseNetworks Anderson Cooper some kind of CIA shill lacky for defending Saudis, protecting islamism? Cooper went on and on about work place violence and mental health never once was terrorism mentioned. Here is more from online blogs and forums and one quote RussiaT basically the USSR Pravda news of today I never thought I would see the today where I be going to a Ruskie newspaper to find out truth about some islamo nutcases killing people in California Quote: Burguan later contradicted Bowdich’s assessment, however: “At the minimum, we have a domestic terrorist-type situation here,” the police chief said, noting that the three suspects “came in with a purpose, they came in to do something.” http://www.mycopper.net/Forum/yaf_postsm671857_FOX-News-Contributors-F arooq-Saheed-Is-Shooting-Suspect-in-San-Bernadino-Shooting-VIDEO.aspx FOX : “Faruq Saheed” Is Suspect in San Bernadino Shooting shooting reload http://forum.dvdtalk.com/religion-politics-world-events/629806-shootin g-san-bernardino-12.html https://www.rt.com/usa/324372-san-bernardino-active-shooter/ Now confirmed: It's all a simple misunderstanding. A bunch of county employees had a Christmas party, and one of them disagreed with something that was going on. He then went home and grabbed his body armor, accomplice, pipe bombs, assault rifles and went on a shooting spree. It's bad enough when a lone nut job goes on a shooting spree, but this was clearly a calculated, planned event. https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1836960-san-bernardin o-ca-mass-shooting-p13.html Police have identified the suspected shooters in today’s mass killings as Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. Both were killed in a gun battle with police following a brief pursuit. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were married and have a 6-month-old baby. AP reports that Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with his wife. http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=413805&page=66 Apartment was a IED making facility -- http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301136&am p;page=11 They feel confident that the IEDs in the Redland residence and the center were real. The female was named as Tashfeen Malik. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20/33701901-multiple-shootings-in-ca lifornia.html Just seen a graphic shot from the chopper that shows the deceased suspect, it was speculated that at least one is female, the reporter is speculating both deceased suspects are female, the image I just saw from the chopper appears to show this too. http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=4ea245802af1 e923851aff9159f9fe9f&t=489167&page=13 So, We have a dead shooter male is an American Devout Muslim who shot up a Christmas Party. We have a dead female Muslim from Qatar who helped him. Both attacked in full battle gear. If that isn't Muslim Terrorism, then this is not a Moto Forum. Female shooter identified. Tashfeen Malik http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=40c_1449109810 Chase, US citizen posts the event on social media, police bomb squad going through people's yards http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f54/hahaha-workplace-violence-obama-s aid-again-sb-shooting-sickening-3114989/ "Workplace Violence!" neighbors say he and his wife had been getting deliveries and working in the garage all night for a while now and when the police went to the residence, they described it as a "bomb making factory." So hmm, Muslim, travels to Saudi Arabia, sets up bomb factory in his garage. Nah, must not be terrorism. http://www.conservativesforum.com/cgi-bin/conservatives-forum/YaBB.pl? num=1449085794/46 This is an embarrassment to us and across the world. They are ALL playing dumb. Yet they can tell us EXATLY how many rds they had of every different caliber... https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/breaking-mass-shooting-reporte d-in-san-bernandino-ca.366374/page-26 San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said late Wednesday that police have not ruled out terrorism as a motive in the mass shooting in Southern California. He said that, based on the armor and level of preparation, “there had to be some degree of planning in this.” Authorities reportedly said that three explosive devices found at the scene of shooting were “disposed of.” While investigators believe the devices were a “pipe bomb-type design,” Burguan could not confirm that at this stage. http://forums.officer.com/t202934-8/ Now the second suspects name is being retracted and claiming it was a hoax... Phuck, I'm off to bed... the mainstream media is a dinosaur, the mainstream media is dead NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:55 AM WISHIMAY *Key Sentence* "He then went home and grabbed his body armor, accomplice, pipe bombs, assault rifles and went on a shooting spree." Only a terrorist or devout redneck "patriot" would just happen to have that laying around... Every article is going out of the way to say "workplace violence" And I'm glad to know we're on the same page about something, G. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 5:55 PM JAYNEZTOWN News media clowns is this the begining of the end for US media? Is it better to go to the Onion, softcore site NakedNews, Colbert Report and MIBs Weekly World News for more accurate reports?? KTTV says gun control and said cops searching for 3 angry white males dressed in military gear…” NBC reported 3 whites attacking near by the Planned Parenthood facility and 'gun control' News from Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, regressive left political leaders = gun control, change gun laws, gun banning Mark Knoller white males - gun control Hillary Clinton tweeted “stop gun violence now.” or some sh!t LA Times and the drugged out journalistic Socal nuts of California even now is still blabbing about evil conservatives, anti-immigration racism, islamophobia and the reality of work place violence Sam Stein Huffington Post or Forbes? 'Planned Parenthood is 1.3 miles from shooting' Geraldo - WTF!! The 2d Amendment is Stupid!!! Don't rationalize. HuffPo writes a goof on religious people When Salon hears a muslim name tweeted in active shooting “I guess you got what you say you wanted” RIGHTWINGERS Bloomberg Business - San Bernardino Planned Parenthood(...seriously you can't make this sh1t up) DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) blasts Republicans for “demonizing an entire religion.” She also renewed her push for Syrian refugees to be admitted to the country, arguing that Syrian migrants today are like Jews Steve Miller - MSNBC The planned parenthood clinic is only a few blocks away" Celebrity Hollyweird elites, seth green, rashida jones, debra messing, amy schumer, christina applegate....gun control, evil white men, gun control, ban guns, gun control, gun bannings, gun control CAIR National hears a muslim might be involved writes WATCH OUT FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA (this is while the islamist IEDs, gun battles, pipebombs, while mass murders continued) CNN’s Cooper reporting on gun control, work place violence, gun banning, racism against muslims.... what a f*cking Saudi loving idiot Cooper is, does he take it up the ass from Saudi for extra money? Majority of US mainstream news media “workplace violence”? Real news http://canadafreepress.com/article/77229 [ there was also an anti-Obama rant in the article so i cut to the facts ] Quote: “Patrick Baccari, a co-worker of Farook who suffered minor wounds from shrapnel slicing through the building’s bathroom walls, told the Associated Press he been sitting at the same table as Farook at the banquet before his colleague suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. “Baccari also said that Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia for about a month this past spring. When Farook came back, word spread that he had gotten married and the woman he described as a pharmacist joined him shortly afterward. The couple had a baby later this year. Baccari added that the reserved Farook showed no signs of unusual behavior, although he grew out his beard several months ago. .... “FBI spokesman David Bowdich acknowledged that “adjustments” had been made in the investigation with an eye on the possibility terrorism was involved. “In addition to the explosives found at the SUV, authorities discovered and detonated three pipe bombs late Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center, the complex where the initial shooting took place about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. “Another source described a house in Redlands that was being searched in connection with the shooting as “an IED facility.” The source said investigators discovered multiple pipe bombs in the house, as well as small explosives that were strapped to remote-controlled cars. .... http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/02/san-bernadino-mass- shooting/ Quote: There appear to be two suspects, both Muslim, a husband-and-wife team named Syed Rezwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. Large portions of the city remain locked down. The F.B.I. is treating its inquiry into the massacre here as a counter-terrorism investigation, two law enforcement officials said Thursday, based on materials the suspects stockpiled — including explosives — their Middle East travels and evidence that one of them had been in touch with people with Islamist extremist views, both in the United States and abroad. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3344350/Devout-Muslim-citizen- Saudi-wife-living-American-Dream-identified-heavily-armed-duo-burst-office-holiday-party-slaughtered-14-leaving-baby-mother.html Quote: Radicalized US Muslim clashed with his Jewish co-worker over religion two weeks before he and Pakistani wife killed 14 at office holiday party using huge arsenal of weapons and pipe bombs During an early-morning search of a residence in the city of Redlands associated with Farook or his family, Chief Burguan said agents came away with a massive arsenal of ammunition, including 2,000 9mm rounds, another 2,500 .223 rounds and several hundred long-rifle bullets, along with 12 pipe bombs and tools that could be used to construct IEDs. Burguan noted that the couple were well-equipped to carry out another attack. He added that Farook had no criminal record that police were aware of. The New York Times reported that the FBI had uncovered evidence that Farook was in communication with multiple Islamic extremists both in the US and abroad over the course of several years, among them at least one individual who was a terrorism suspect. Terrible day for the US free speech and the United States news media, we basically have to go to nutty online blogs and forums and go to overseas news sites like RToday, basically the USSR Pravda news of today It is a sad day for truth and free news speech, I never thought I would see the today where I be going to a Ruskie newspaper finding truth about some islamo nutcases killing people in California NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 7:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN IED-making tools, Boston Bomber-style explosives and 4,500 bullets: The arsenal inside the home of the San Bernardino terror couple that could have cost as little as $4,000 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3345021/Twelve-pipe-bombs-4-50 0-bullets-tools-making-explosives-police-home-San-Bernardino-suspects-design-bomb-used-Boston-bombers.html The radicalized Muslim and his Pakistani wife who killed 14 people in San Bernardino used the same designs as the Boston Bombers to put together 12 pipe bombs, reports suggest. Police raided the home of US-born Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, and found a chilling cache of 4,500 bullets they didn't use for the attack, and tools used to make explosives such as IEDS. The armory they developed, which included the 1,600 bullets and four weapons they took to the scene of the shootout with police, could have cost them as little as $4,000. The pair seemed to be using blueprints found in many issues of Inspire, Al Qaeda's extremist online publication in the Arabian Peninsula. The magazine in the past has outlined how to make the bomb from household goods and without using metal components. Articles have also encouraged lone-wolf attacks on the American 'super-rich' and published a 'kill list' of potential targets. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:46 PM JAYNEZTOWN San Bernardino shooting: Syed Farook 'used social media to contact extremists watched by the FBI' The FBI was last night treating America's latest massive shooting as a possible Islamist terror attack after investigators found a deadly arsenal at the home of the couple who killed 14 people and injured 21 others at a disabled people's centre. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12030160/Ca lifornia-shooting-Multiple-victims-reported-in-San-Bernardino-live.html Farook, born in the US to a Pakistani family had worked at the centre for five years as a local authority environmental health inspector before turning on his colleagues in lethal fashion The act was said to be out of character by survivors, who described Farook as a quiet man who appeared to be "living the American dream", according to the Los Angeles Times. He was said to have travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2014 and returned with a new wife, Malik, whom he had met online. Malik is a citizen of Pakistan who was in America on a K-1 visa, according to the FBI. Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani-American woman killed in the San Bernardino shooting, was able to enter the U.S. through a visa program for foreigners engaged to American citizens, according to federal government sources. Chris Christie, the Republican presidential candidate, said: Quote I am convinced that was a terrorist attack. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 10:54 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. We'll probably find out more later, but ... You don't know San Bernardino like I know San Bernardino, I suspect. When I first moved to California, one of my co-workers who lived there told me people called it San Ber'draino'. There's a lot of poverty and extreme people off in that direction - bikers, gangs, 'desert rats', drugs, prostitution. It's possible the man got disillusioned with the people around him and tried to find a more holy way to live, which led to him becoming more extreme. I can imagine him becoming profoundly alienated from the society he was living in. One of the people who was killed, Thalasinos, was apparently quite a vocal Zionist. Or maybe Farook was working with some adamant Christians who made the workplace into alien, unwelcoming territory. Or both, or something else. He seems to have become isolated from his co-workers, exchanging pleasantries, but little else. Certainly there are people who prey on those like Farook, who would use him as another pawn, fanning discontent and promising an answer. This was a Christmas ('holiday') party. He left angry, and came back with his wife, guns and a plan they put into action. There was something about work, about his interactions with people there, and I suspect about religion that coalesced into this violence. I don't think it was primarily driven by radical Islam, or political. I think he's a man who just snapped. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:24 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by 1kiki: ..driven by radical Islam, or political. I think he's a man who just snapped. Ummm. No. Neighbors said they've been getting hella lot of odd packages and acting weird. No one leaves a party and just happens to find $4000 worth of guns ammo and complicated rigged explosives in TWO HOURS. No matter the reason, this was planned out for a WHILE. And whether they were part of a cell or not, they knew what they were about to do and what it would look like. If it looks like jihad and walks like jihad and yells "ahlalalalalala"...... it MUST BE JIHAD. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:31 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. "No matter the reason, this was planned out for a WHILE. If it looks like jihad ..." But it doesn't. Not to me. Jihad targets maximum causalities of strangers, targets of maximum effect. It's strategic. This targeted a small, isolated gathering of people - co-workers, people he knew. He could have found much more damaging targets, like Ontario National Airport. Or the Inland Center, a large mall area. Hey, it's shopping season - right? It wouldn't be the first time a mentally unbalanced person associated with, and found a rationale through, an extremist position. For example Jared Lee Loughner ('Gabby' Giffords' shooter). ETA: It's always possible we'll find that his strain of violence had deep and enduring contacts with radical Islam. At this point, with the information available, to me he looks more like a pawn and less like a player. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 1:07 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Also, fwiw no armor or body cams. They did wear 'tactical gear' which allowed them to carry ammo. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458277103/san-bernar dino-shootings-what-we-know-one-day-after Both were dressed in "tactical gear" (including load-bearing vests, but not ballistic or bulletproof vests) and carrying .223-caliber assault-style rifles and semiautomatic handguns, police say.. Man, you guys will believe anything if it fits some fantasy you already heave in your head. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 2:07 PM WISHIMAY You seem to be trifling on what they were WEARING. No one here cares... Hello, PIPE BOMBS=PLANNING. This just might have been an opportune moment, but they meant to do what they did and where they did it to MAKE IT PERSONAL. They even took the kid to relatives and burned hard drives. They were going to do something at some point no matter what. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 6:16 PM WISHIMAY You never do know a man until you hold him over a volcano do you? My family know next to nothing about me. They don't want to know either, they all have this idea of "who I am" they hold on to, no matter what... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 6:44 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: This is the most bungled media whitewashing I have ever seen... MSNBC LSD CNN Media Going Through Syed Farook's Personal Stuff NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 11:04 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. "Hello, PIPE BOMBS=PLANNING." Did I say ANYWHERE that it was spontaneous? Or are you being deliberately stupid? SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. 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All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. 's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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