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Scheherazade
02-01-2013, 08:10 AM
One has to be lenient towards those whose only entertainment is daydreaming...

Wizard272002
02-01-2013, 10:48 AM
In 1993, the biggest question was WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!

Gilliatt Gurgle
02-01-2013, 09:44 PM
Argyle socks look better on some people than others.

http://imageshack.us/a/img690/6829/71087274.jpg

I gave up trying to flatter my figure long ago but I haven't quite got to the Three Stooges stage.


In the words of Hank Hill..."Got dang, I'd like to darn her socks"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZ1lCJ0blU

Right now I'm thinking Wild Turkey 101 tastes good on a Friday night.

islandclimber
02-02-2013, 04:03 AM
High melodrama. How can I possibly decide which surfboard I shall use tomorrow!? Existential crisis here!

cacian
02-02-2013, 04:19 AM
High melodrama. How can I possibly decide which surfboard I shall use tomorrow!? Existential crisis here!

I reckon you should just go with the colours. The brightest the better. Haha. I am guessing they have colours right?

islandclimber
02-02-2013, 04:45 AM
I reckon you should just go with the colours. The brightest the better. Haha. I am guessing they have colours right?

Yes. To an extent. One is striped blue and black and the other is white, though I wrote random quotes from writers like Pynchon, Krasznahorkai, Nądas, Murakami, etc. all over it in different colours... The impossibility of a decision!

faithosaurus
02-02-2013, 12:13 PM
Why did I just dream about my cat dying?

cacian
02-03-2013, 06:14 AM
Yes. To an extent. One is striped blue and black and the other is white, though I wrote random quotes from writers like Pynchon, Krasznahorkai, Nądas, Murakami, etc. all over it in different colours... The impossibility of a decision!

Very nice I like the idea of quotes on surfboards. Maybe you could start your own brand of literary boards to promote literature. You never know haha.
What would you say is one of your favourite quote from Pynchon?


Why did I just dream about my cat dying?

Aww so sorry about this. It is just a dream.

islandclimber
02-03-2013, 10:58 AM
Very nice I like the idea of quotes on surfboards. Maybe you could start your own brand of literary boards to promote literature. You never know haha.
What would you say is one of your favourite quote from Pynchon?

Now that would be a pretty amazing career! A surfboard shaper with a literary agenda!

"I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become.... "

Gravity's Rainbow V. 724

maxdental
02-06-2013, 10:15 PM
i want find a good girl and enjoy the rest of my life

cacian
02-07-2013, 10:28 AM
I wish I had not learnt about ' furries'. It is making feel slightly edgy. Grrrrr. LOL:eek6:

Varenne Rodin
02-10-2013, 04:07 PM
I need to work, but I'm having a hard time beginning a new project. I should just do it. My body is in protest of reason.


I wish I had not learnt about ' furries'. It is making feel slightly edgy. Grrrrr. LOL:eek6:

Haha. Furries. Tell us what you have learned of them, Cacian!

MadCow
02-10-2013, 07:06 PM
I'm wondering why I get a high pitched whine in my ears sometimes. Does everyone get this?

Scheherazade
02-10-2013, 07:51 PM
I'm wondering why I get a high pitched whine in my ears sometimes. Does everyone get this?Are you married?

Maximilianus
02-11-2013, 06:50 PM
I sometimes get a high pitched whine in my ears, but it must be something like air or maybe a wayward flatus at large, since I am not married :p and at the current pace of events I think I'll never be http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/laie/Laie_83.gif

Lykren
02-12-2013, 07:37 PM
I'm thinking about a walk a (female) friend of mine proposed we take in the local botanic garden. I'm thinking about what it means. I'm thinking I'm too shy.

MadCow
02-13-2013, 08:41 AM
Are you married?


Hahahahahahahaha!

TinCan
02-15-2013, 10:27 AM
I am pondering a question posed by a professor... "Are you a writer?"

osho
02-15-2013, 11:02 AM
I am thinking about a lot of things and I am in fact in a vortex of streams of consciousness and i just recall how some posters treat my writing poorly and my words just rambling and I do not resent and i love reviews no matter they are good or bad and of course reviews add values and give me a lot of space and i therefore cash in on them in order that i can emerge more robustly, more vividly and more colossally.

Why should i resent if somebody is critical of my writing and everyone's wriing has not reached a peak at which he or she can sit relaxing and there is always room for improvement and even James Joyce was not happy about his novel Ulysses and he wanted to write better and more sophisticated books than the ones he had written and I am nowhere and it have to hone my skills to make myself readable, interesting or else going public with this style is like facing a cliff.

faithosaurus
02-25-2013, 03:39 AM
Could it be that there's a Justin Bieber virus in the air that causes random parts of his songs to become stuck in your head for no reason?

Helga
02-26-2013, 04:18 PM
I am home from my test it was so hard and I am so glad it's over! I almost failed on time, left when there were 3 minuets 'till the test papers were taken. I will hopefully never have to answer questions on 12.century literature again!

Bakiryu
02-26-2013, 05:13 PM
I'm so happy to be online, but I need to stop procrastinating. These exams are killing me. I hate Kristeva and Butler's language....why?

Pensive
02-28-2013, 01:27 PM
I'm so happy to be online, but I need to stop procrastinating. These exams are killing me. I hate Kristeva and Butler's language....why?

Whoa Baki is back! Welcome back :)

Snowqueen
03-02-2013, 01:34 AM
Whoa Baki is back! Welcome back :)

Wow, Pensy is back. :D

cacian
03-02-2013, 05:45 AM
Wow, Pensy is back. :D

wow Snowqueen is back :)

cacian
03-02-2013, 05:46 AM
I am home from my test it was so hard and I am so glad it's over! I almost failed on time, left when there were 3 minuets 'till the test papers were taken. I will hopefully never have to answer questions on 12.century literature again!

what was so difficult about 12 century literature?

Nightshade
03-02-2013, 02:39 PM
I'm thinking it has been FAAAAAR too long and I wonder how many faces here I will recognise. And please God let my internet not decide to die for a month again as I have lesson plans I need to be writing. :D

papayahed
03-13-2013, 08:46 PM
I'm thinking that it's good to see nightie posting

rakhiandedunom
03-14-2013, 01:44 AM
Right now, i am thinking that i work very fast in my field.

papayahed
03-15-2013, 06:54 PM
I need to stop watching HGTV, it's making me want to buy a house.

Shaman_Raman
03-16-2013, 12:22 AM
Trying to interpret others is humorous.

Adolescent09
03-16-2013, 06:29 AM
Trying to interpret others is humorous.

Pensiveness puts pedant's pens in sieves nesting between the Christian God's first creation's twigs with a base of two berries.

It's far from humorous when you try to interpret it.

Aha! I have thus, disproved thee!

Did Adam's teepee resemble a tree or did Even molest a bumble bee?

cacian
03-16-2013, 07:20 AM
I am thinking how long does it take to write a word?
It depends i guess it may take seconds to minutes but it takes what it takes.

Shaman_Raman
03-16-2013, 09:36 AM
I'm am thinking posting what's on my mind at the moment is what the threads all about. Sorry if you have a hard on about it.

cacian
03-16-2013, 09:55 AM
Hi Shaman the thread is about thinking. Thinking is about now. Isn't it?

Shaman_Raman
03-16-2013, 10:04 AM
Thinking can be about now, it doesn't have to be. I can think about tomorrow or yesterday just as easily.

cacian
03-16-2013, 01:25 PM
Thinking can be about now, it doesn't have to be. I can think about tomorrow or yesterday just as easily.

Sure. I could not tell you what I am going to be thinking tomorrow that is a long long way away LOL

cacian
03-17-2013, 12:03 PM
Iam thinking I was watching the Formula Austrlian Grand Prix.
There was poster advertising Champagne MUMM and it said Champagne Formula and underneath is it said: Think Before Your drive.
How does that work?
Advertising alcohol and then saying think before you drive is rather ambigeous isn't it?
That is after The Formula?! is alcohol now the norms to drive?
May be someone could explain.

liza
03-20-2013, 04:11 PM
I'm very sad now .. someone I saw before two days .. died from heart attack .. :((

dust in the wind

cacian
03-20-2013, 04:21 PM
I'm very sad now .. someone I saw before two days .. died from heart attack .. :((

dust in the wind

I am so sorry liza to hear the sad news. I hope you are ok.:frown5:

liza
03-20-2013, 04:22 PM
I'm ok .. thank y .. I was thinking .. that life is so short

tonywalt
03-20-2013, 04:36 PM
I'm ok .. thank y .. I was thinking .. that life is so short

I'm sorry to hear this Liza. You Hang In there and don't think too much. Chat on here! I'm sure there are witty funny people to cheer you up!

Tony

lilimarlene
03-20-2013, 07:05 PM
QUOTE=liza;1209313]I'm ok .. thank y .. I was thinking .. that life is so short[/QUOTE]



sorry to hear that liza, since i can't be there to give you a hug, this virtual one will have to do.:grouphug:life IS short, that's why you have to make the most of each and every day

cacian
03-22-2013, 11:11 AM
I am thinking does the supernatural exist? magic could be said of the same. People believe it exists. There is also that idea that if you believe something is then it will. I am not sure I take onto that is only because I more keen on the supernatural. I have to give somewhere and so I will give to supernatural but not the to the collective group belief.

cafolini
03-22-2013, 12:10 PM
Of course the supernatural exists and is. But does it occur? The crystal ball occurs. What's inside to see that's not crystal ball only is (ist) and ex-ist. You, however, could not refuse to occur and achieve it with or without crystal ball. ROFLMAO!!

cacian
03-22-2013, 12:32 PM
Of course the supernatural exists and is. But does it occur? The crystal ball occurs. What's inside to see that's not crystal ball only is (ist) and ex-ist. You, however, could not refuse to occur and achieve it with or without crystal ball. ROFLMAO!!

The crystal ball is to supernatural what a football is to the net. One kicks around and the other wishes to grab. Only the net get to hold the football for a spilt second because the ball hits it and an out. The score is in movement and the speed and not in the grabbing. The net does not scores it merely narrows it down for the ball to score.
so to go back to the crystal ball if by magic one figures out of tiny amount of natural by looking through/ onto the glass ( Alice Through The Looking Glass comes to mind )who says the reading was anything but super. I wear reading glasses because it allows me to magnify the object whether I stand to understand it is a totally different matter.
And so to natural maybe super but I am not sure I am super after that . It is a mystery what supernatural does to humans. That is something to figure out.;)

faithosaurus
03-22-2013, 10:40 PM
So Howard just assisted a goal...I really wish I hadn't shut off the game so I could have seen that one.

Adolescent09
03-22-2013, 11:02 PM
I will feel blessed if I am alive to see another year.

Life=animate sod. To inanimate sod = animate sod returns.

faithosaurus
03-23-2013, 12:38 AM
We just won against the Ducks 5-1 and Abby got a hattrick. So happy:hurray:

synodbio
03-27-2013, 05:21 AM
Right now am thinking of holi festival, because today is holi fest, at the same time am thinking about wastage of water for holi celebration

tonywalt
03-27-2013, 10:15 AM
Long weekend!

*Classic*Charm*
03-27-2013, 04:10 PM
No more Foucault. PLEASE no more Foucault.

hannah_arendt
03-27-2013, 04:18 PM
Soon I`ll be able to get more sleep:)

Helga
03-27-2013, 04:48 PM
I really shouldn't have bought a chocolate scented candle

Shaman_Raman
03-27-2013, 05:45 PM
I really shouldn't have bought a chocolate scented candle

Hahahaha! That's funny stuff.

Helga
03-28-2013, 06:00 PM
This day was just awful and annoying and I am so happy it's almost over

papayahed
03-30-2013, 09:21 AM
I was going to buy flowers today but it's raining.

*Classic*Charm*
03-30-2013, 04:43 PM
This last hundred pages is going to be the death of me.

faithosaurus
04-02-2013, 01:00 PM
I will be forever alone.

liza
04-02-2013, 01:32 PM
I will be forever alone.

Really .. you are such a beautiful girl .. why I are you thinking that .. ??

I was thinking that there are so many things I wanna say to someone .. and I can't ..

faithosaurus
04-02-2013, 02:16 PM
Oh, thanks, haha.

My friends were just talking about boy stuff. One has a boyfriend but has other guys trying to get at her; the other just got out of a relationship and is already starting to date. My last relationship was...4 years ago. Probably because I'm so awkward. Apparently telling a story about a pregnant 9 year old in New Mexico isn't the best conversation starter.

LitNetIsGreat
04-02-2013, 06:30 PM
I will be forever alone.


Really .. you are such a beautiful girl .. why I are you thinking that .. ??

I was thinking that there are so many things I wanna say to someone .. and I can't ..

Yes. I don't want to sound 'pervy' or anything (I'm done with women anyway because they are all evil, no offence) but you are a good looking lass so I'm sure you will have plenty of options at one point or another.

...

I'm thinking that I'm never going to sleep tonight because I'm just not tired. Maybe because I've not done anything all day apart from chess tactics and watching one episode of Heartbeat. I'm never going to sleep. My only option seems to be to watch more Heartbeat and get some beer.

Maximilianus
04-02-2013, 08:29 PM
Not sure if all women are evil, as Neely stated above, but in my particular humble opinion, all women I've fallen for feature a noticeable touch of evil as a main trait, I would say.


I will be forever alone.
I tend to believe likewise, and the evidence isn't any help.


Really .. you are such a beautiful girl .. why I are you thinking that .. ??
At times, being beautiful is not enough. At times, being a good person is not enough, either. I think I'm not handsome, but I'm pretty sure I was a good man, and nonetheless the woman in question prefers to keep falling for a bastard ex.


Oh, thanks, haha.

My friends were just talking about boy stuff. One has a boyfriend but has other guys trying to get at her; the other just got out of a relationship and is already starting to date. My last relationship was...4 years ago. Probably because I'm so awkward. Apparently telling a story about a pregnant 9 year old in New Mexico isn't the best conversation starter.
Taking that particular issue as a subject for conversation wouldn't be a problem for me. The main difficulty is finding someone who can tune themselves in the same syntony of our conversations and circumstances, which appears to be a feat.

adamm
04-03-2013, 06:06 AM
about my lecture

liza
04-03-2013, 04:30 PM
Yes. I don't want to sound 'pervy' or anything (I'm done with women anyway because they are all evil, no offence) but you are a good looking lass so I'm sure you will have plenty of options at one point or another.

...

I'm thinking that I'm never going to sleep tonight because I'm just not tired. Maybe because I've not done anything all day apart from chess tactics and watching one episode of Heartbeat. I'm never going to sleep. My only option seems to be to watch more Heartbeat and get some beer.


Not sure if all women are evil, as Neely stated above, but in my particular humble opinion, all women I've fallen for feature a noticeable touch of evil as a main trait, I would say.


I tend to believe likewise, and the evidence isn't any help.


At times, being beautiful is not enough. At times, being a good person is not enough, either. I think I'm not handsome, but I'm pretty sure I was a good man, and nonetheless the woman in question prefers to keep falling for a bastard ex.


Taking that particular issue as a subject for conversation wouldn't be a problem for me. The main difficulty is finding someone who can tune themselves in the same syntony of our conversations and circumstances, which appears to be a feat.


:) I didn't know that many people feel same like I feel :)

*Classic*Charm*
04-06-2013, 12:09 AM
Why do I make terrible choices?

Lykren
04-06-2013, 12:26 AM
I'm wondering whether it's ridiculous to feel this angry about not being able to relate well emotionally to other people.

Shaman_Raman
04-06-2013, 07:42 PM
The only pay off to having a Cold is catching up on forum posts...But still my nose is a fountain right now, and I want to chop the damned thing off.

Varenne Rodin
04-07-2013, 04:22 AM
I'm wondering whether it's ridiculous to feel this angry about not being able to relate well emotionally to other people.

Lykren, that's what I was going to say.

Helga
04-07-2013, 05:50 AM
I haven't talked to people for way too long when I start a conversation with my Darth Vader figure, right?

tonywalt
04-07-2013, 11:16 AM
I remember leaving the place then it's all blank...

*Classic*Charm*
04-07-2013, 12:13 PM
I have this little lovely stuck in my head...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4C6cqo4EjY

Varenne Rodin
04-08-2013, 03:43 AM
I haven't talked to people for way too long when I start a conversation with my Darth Vader figure, right?

I don't know. I love my Darth Vader figures. I have at least four. Maybe they're better than people, but I love you, Helga. I think you're terrific!

prendrelemick
04-08-2013, 09:14 AM
Re. Mrs Thatcher. I can't say what I'm really thinking.

cafolini
04-08-2013, 12:08 PM
I think the UK lost (well, "lost" is a figure of speech) a woman who was perhaps one of the most influential in setting the standards for women in politics all over the world. It is not a sad situation, since she went when she had already fulfilled her mission in life and was very successful. Goodbye Iron Lady. My kind loved your stage. My respect.

prendrelemick
04-08-2013, 01:33 PM
She seems to have died on a day when there is no other news whatsoever.:frown2:

cafolini
04-08-2013, 02:21 PM
Sara Montiel, the Spanish Diva died this same day. She's honored for having been the first Spanish woman to make it to Hollywood in 1954.

cacian
04-08-2013, 02:35 PM
She seems to have died on a day when there is no other news whatsoever.:frown2:

Well politics is a good eye for the media ie it provides entertaining when there is none in society. Thatcher died and so does the whole world eventually the difference is that she made the headlines for stepping up politics a gear up for the world to see and commiserate and the rest does not. That surely is worth a mention even though the foundation of it all is not right. Who cares what other like us think what matters is the tabloid and television media.

cacian
04-08-2013, 02:39 PM
Sara Montiel, the Spanish Diva died this same day. She's honored for having been the first Spanish woman to make it to Hollywood in 1954.

Wow that is sure a piece of news to be had. I must look up Sara Montiel she rings a bell.

Varenne Rodin
04-10-2013, 04:11 AM
I've had wine. I feel like saying things when I have had wine. I will say nearly anything. I'm going to write some awful novel about vampires and sell it for billions of dollars.

cacian
04-10-2013, 06:05 AM
I've had wine. I feel like saying things when I have had wine. I will say nearly anything. I'm going to write some awful novel about vampires and sell it for billions of dollars.

Well they do say controversial sells more and If wine is the potion that leads to the awfull truth or the genuine then so be it.
I think we as humans are so preconditioned then everything we do normally is because of pressures. Take a glass of wine and those inhibitions are stripped.

Helga
04-10-2013, 09:43 AM
I was listening to a band from the ice and the song was about the singers ex and that she is a slut. Now that was hard to explain to my boy.

Calidore
04-10-2013, 02:29 PM
The line between helping and enabling is very thin and twisty, and even when you think you can see it, it may actually be somewhere else. Sometimes I think I'm struggling more with my friend's struggles than she is.

cacian
04-10-2013, 02:42 PM
I was listening to a band from the ice and the song was about the singers ex and that she is a slut. Now that was hard to explain to my boy.

no need to explain just make it up sometimes if is for the best. Children are too young for this kind of information I would rather they made their mind up their own it is easier. I speak from experience.

*Classic*Charm*
04-10-2013, 04:19 PM
I was listening to a band from the ice and the song was about the singers ex and that she is a slut. Now that was hard to explain to my boy.

I think Helga did the right thing.

liza
04-14-2013, 07:12 AM
about ungratefulness

Lykren
04-16-2013, 07:17 PM
I have a headache.

Quast
04-16-2013, 08:11 PM
I have a new idea in my mind but i don't know how to start it.
it's not easy to make your own business, but the really problem is when you find people stop you or push you back.

Varenne Rodin
04-19-2013, 12:48 AM
I've been watching the first season of American Horror Story. Now I'm constantly thinking about sex. I must be some kind of deviant.







I like it.

prendrelemick
04-21-2013, 05:29 PM
^ :lol:
I've been watching The weather report, and I'm thinking about sex all the time - But then I'm a man!

liza
04-21-2013, 05:35 PM
I've been reading topics in Lit forum, and I am thinking about sex all time and I'm a woman :)

Shaman_Raman
04-21-2013, 07:09 PM
I'm thinking I've never met you Liza, I'm Shaman ;) haha.

liza
04-23-2013, 04:10 PM
I'm thinking I've never met you Liza, I'm Shaman ;) haha. where can I meet you Shaman ..? :)

Lykren
04-23-2013, 04:14 PM
I've been reading Shakespeare, and I've been thinking about sex all the time, and I'm an aardvark.

Shaman_Raman
04-23-2013, 10:35 PM
where can I meet you Shaman ..? :)

Lol well if you're in the Chicago area within the next two months or in Seattle within the next year, coffees on me. ;)

Hawkman
04-24-2013, 05:58 AM
I've been watching the first season of American Horror Story. Now I'm constantly thinking about sex. I must be some kind of deviant.

I like it.

I don't think you qualify as a deviant unless you only actually have sex while watching the show...


^ :lol:
I've been watching The weather report, and I'm thinking about sex all the time - But then I'm a man!

Which is entirely appropriate and normal. Unfortunately, having read this thread, I am now thinking about sex with a deviant all the time, which isn't. Oh, woe is me...

cacian
04-24-2013, 07:56 AM
I am thinking radical has something to do with genetic modification. If one to modify food then one is to modify humans too. Is that a possibility to be sniffed at? I would eradicate generic modification it takes away the individuality and makes people look painted and behaved like robots.
Computer technology eat your heart out flawless is plotless.

prendrelemick
04-24-2013, 04:12 PM
I don't think you qualify as a deviant unless you only actually have sex while watching the show...



Which is entirely appropriate and normal. Unfortunately, having read this thread, I am now thinking about sex with a deviant all the time, which isn't. Oh, woe is me...


Of all sexually deviant behavior, celibacy is the most extreme. (that's a quote by some bloke.)

Darcy88
04-27-2013, 05:01 AM
I don't think about sex all the time. Sometimes I also think about food. Or great bits of relatable writing like this:

“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

Gilliatt Gurgle
04-27-2013, 09:05 AM
...the wonderful, melodious sound of a Pratt & Whitney R-1340.
(A North American AT-6 just flew low over the house.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGVkamfyBFU

liza
04-27-2013, 01:24 PM
I don't think about sex all the time. Sometimes I also think about food. Or great bits of relatable writing like this:

“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

very depressive :) but I like it ..

cafolini
04-27-2013, 01:58 PM
I don't think about sex all the time. Sometimes I also think about food. Or great bits of relatable writing like this:

“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

Chekhov, one of the best Russian writers. He captured the physical manifestation without losing track of the mental existence. On famine, adultery, etc., he was there.

liza
04-27-2013, 02:07 PM
Chekhov, one of the best Russian writers. He captured the physical manifestation without losing track of the mental existence. On famine, adultery, etc., he was there.

ok.. I think I will starT reading Chekhov :) he understand me :)

Darcy88
04-27-2013, 09:09 PM
Chekhov, one of the best Russian writers. He captured the physical manifestation without losing track of the mental existence. On famine, adultery, etc., he was there.

Borges is the only one who contends with Chekhov for being in my mind the finest short story writer ever. His stories are impeccably crafted from beginning to end. He's one of those writers who when I read them I want to give up writing altogether because I know I'll never come anywhere close to matching such brilliant greatness.

*Classic*Charm*
04-28-2013, 01:30 AM
I just want to argue ALL THE TIME.

JuniperWoolf
04-28-2013, 01:53 AM
I'm proud of my dad. All day today I've turned the tables and sounded like a parent praising her child. "My dad is a federal union president. Look at this picture! See the caption? 'Stopped by to support our provincial brothers and sisters at the Edmonton Remand Centre on our way to the Moncton convention.' Isn't he great?"

Here's (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/04/27/alberta-remand-centre-job-action.html) the news story, the provincial government is putting the lives of guards and the public at risk to cut costs, in Alberta, the richest province in Canada; and here's a picture of my dad (far left) with the ERC union vice president (the lady in the poncho):

http://i.imgur.com/zJQFTHB.jpg

Darcy88
04-28-2013, 02:32 AM
I'm proud of my dad. All day today I've turned the tables and sounded like a parent praising her child. "My dad is a federal union president. Look at this picture! See the caption? 'Stopped by to support our provincial brothers and sisters at the Edmonton Remand Centre on our way to the Moncton convention.' Isn't he great?"

Here's (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/04/27/alberta-remand-centre-job-action.html) the news story, the provincial government is putting the lives of guards and the public at risk to cut costs, in Alberta, the richest province in Canada; and here's a picture of my dad (far left) with the ERC union vice president (the lady in the poncho):

http://i.imgur.com/zJQFTHB.jpg

Good on your Dad. Prison guards have one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs out there.

JuniperWoolf
04-28-2013, 02:40 AM
Good on your Dad. Prison guards have one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs out there.

Especially when the guards are undertrained, there aren't any barriers seperating those guards from hundreds of dangerous inmates, and anyone who complains about security gets fired. :sick:

Varenne Rodin
04-30-2013, 01:25 AM
Oh, my. What did I do? The thread turned hilarious for a bit. I find you all delightful! To everyone who told me about how you think about sex and the other things that you think about, thanks for making me smile and even laugh.

Gilliatt, I have been to that Miramar air show (from your video link) no less than a dozen times. The Blue Angels are my childhood favorites. I always enjoyed getting to sit inside the grounded planes. Fun stuff. :)

markdavis0011
05-01-2013, 02:50 AM
Just thinking of going onto the bed and have a good sleep :)

Galvin500
05-12-2013, 01:27 PM
I'm thinking that I haven't made anything chocolatey and gooey for ages and wondering if I need to go shopping to get the ingredients to make a cake.......mmmmm.

Buh4Bee
05-15-2013, 10:31 PM
I hate my garden at my new house and how much work it will be to fix it.

Varenne Rodin
05-16-2013, 07:11 PM
I have had a severe headache for the past nine days. I'm in a doctor's office, shot full of morphine, waiting to get a cat scan. My mouth tastes like metal. I'm freezing cold. The pain in my head is not gone. I'm high as a kite. I hate morphine.

Maximilianus
05-16-2013, 08:09 PM
I have had a severe headache for the past nine days. I'm in a doctor's office, shot full of morphine, waiting to get a cat scan. My mouth tastes like metal. I'm freezing cold. The pain in my head is not gone. I'm high as a kite. I hate morphine.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p68/alongway99/Get%20Well%20Animations/Get%20Well%20Soon%20Animations/GetWellSoonFlowerBouquetCard.gif

Adolescent09
05-16-2013, 09:52 PM
"Don't let these devils play you down or belittle your soul; just be happy with yourself and it's so simple to grow."

Darcy88
05-16-2013, 11:06 PM
I have had a severe headache for the past nine days. I'm in a doctor's office, shot full of morphine, waiting to get a cat scan. My mouth tastes like metal. I'm freezing cold. The pain in my head is not gone. I'm high as a kite. I hate morphine.

Hope you feel better Varenne. Let us know if you're all right. I suffer frequent terrible headaches, but they never last more than a day.

hannah_arendt
05-17-2013, 01:45 AM
I've been reading Shakespeare, and I've been thinking about sex all the time, and I'm an aardvark.

So maybe take something Martin`s, "Game of the Thrones" for example? :)

qimissung
05-17-2013, 03:04 AM
Especially when the guards are undertrained, there aren't any barriers seperating those guards from hundreds of dangerous inmates, and anyone who complains about security gets fired. :sick:

The last in particular is annoying. I think all people in administrative positions should be trained to listen, hear and maybe even respond to what their employees have to say. It might even improve their workplaces. Imagine that.

Congrats to your dad, Juniper, for being a go-to guy.


I have had a severe headache for the past nine days. I'm in a doctor's office, shot full of morphine, waiting to get a cat scan. My mouth tastes like metal. I'm freezing cold. The pain in my head is not gone. I'm high as a kite. I hate morphine.

Yes, do let us know how you're doing Varenne. I hope the pain has abated by this time.Our thoughts are with you.

hannah_arendt
05-17-2013, 03:31 AM
The last in particular is annoying. I think all people in administrative positions should be trained to listen, hear and maybe even respond to what their employees have to say. It might even improve their workplaces. Imagine that.

Congrats to your dad, Juniper, for being a go-to guy.

Yes, do let us know how you're doing Varenne. I hope the pain has abated by this time.Our thoughts are with you.


Hearing doesn`t mean listening. I don`t know many people who can do it.*
I hope, Varenne, that everything will be fine.

Snowqueen
05-17-2013, 05:26 AM
Get well soon, Varenne. I wish you all the best.

ACm Stha
05-17-2013, 05:28 AM
m thinking about going to swimming or not.

ACm Stha
05-17-2013, 05:46 AM
Sleeping

Varenne Rodin
05-18-2013, 12:54 AM
Thank you, everyone! You're all so dear and kind. :)

The headache is still with me. I was given narcotics that did nothing. Tomorrow they are having me try allergy medicine, though I have never had an allergy. I'll be alright as long as I don't die.

Now I'm thinking about how much I love my friends here. I really love you.

Snowqueen
05-18-2013, 02:38 AM
Thank you, everyone! You're all so dear and kind. :)

The headache is still with me. I was given narcotics that did nothing. Tomorrow they are having me try allergy medicine, though I have never had an allergy. I'll be alright as long as I don't die.

Now I'm thinking about how much I love my friends here. I really love you.

And your friends love you too, Varenne. I Hope you feel better soon.

Gilliatt Gurgle
05-18-2013, 07:48 AM
We're pulling for you Varenne.

Hawkman
05-18-2013, 04:42 PM
Oh God.... Oh god, oh god, oh god... Oh god. (By the way, I'm an atheist.) Oh god! Oh Darwin, oh Darwin. Darwin, Darwin, Darwin... (I wonder if he played dice)

Whifflingpin
05-19-2013, 03:22 PM
There are times when I really long for the return of Unnameable

Buh4Bee
05-19-2013, 07:49 PM
Tomorrow is Monday and I really hate Mondays.

Gilliatt Gurgle
05-19-2013, 08:50 PM
I got my 15 minutes on the Forums, now it's time to mow the lawn.

Silas Thorne
05-19-2013, 09:48 PM
I'm thinking about sex again. It's that woman with the glasses walking past... Gone now.

*Classic*Charm*
05-20-2013, 01:23 AM
It's time, I'm afraid.

JuniperWoolf
05-20-2013, 06:14 AM
I just discovered Joy Division. What the **** have I been doing with my life?

Silas Thorne
05-20-2013, 06:20 AM
I just discovered Joy Division. What the **** have I been doing with my life?

Obviously not listening to Joy Division.

I'm thinking of something that begins with the letter S.

Darcy88
05-20-2013, 11:07 PM
Contemplating hitch-hiking across Canada.

Buh4Bee
05-21-2013, 08:15 PM
Making a list of nurseries to hit tomorrow! HahaHA!!!

cafolini
05-21-2013, 11:11 PM
How many experts on Nietzsche suddenly appear. LOL

Darcy88
05-22-2013, 01:14 AM
How many experts on Nietzsche suddenly appear. LOL

I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I was obsessed with Nietzsche for 3 years and would up reading most of his corpus multiple times over.

prendrelemick
05-22-2013, 01:59 AM
Waiting for a thought to coalesce. That moment in human history when a grunt meant "look at that beautiful sunset Mary". Was that the start of everything human?

Edit: That moment when people realised that the world around them could be described by sounds.

And then realised that abstracts could be expressed using the same tool eg, I like the sunset.

Did abstract thought and language develop together?

Language is an abstract construct I suppose, so we are back to that link between the physical world and a series of grunts. That was some breakthrough.

Darcy88
05-22-2013, 03:20 AM
Gagnam Style has over 1.6 billion youtube views, the highest view count I could find for a Mozart composition was 35 million. Something wrong with the world today.

Gilliatt Gurgle
05-22-2013, 08:46 PM
Gagnam Style has over 1.6 billion youtube views, the highest view count I could find for a Mozart composition was 35 million. Something wrong with the world today.

Haha, what a coincidence, this past weekend we held a an Texas country college graduation ceremony for my niece (some might call it red neck graduation since it was accompanied with beer, crawfish, guns and fireworks). She graduated from law school in Oregon and wasn't able to attend there, so we held it locally.
...Anyhow, one sister was wearing a tee shirt with that Gagnam Style Psy (?) dude printed on it. I had no clue who this sigh character was, until I listened to it just now.
Hell, you mention the travesty compared to Mozart, I say what about Burl Ives ... only 10,118 views, are you kidding me?!.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cscoeHW64

tonywalt
05-23-2013, 05:25 PM
Gagnam Style has over 1.6 billion youtube views, the highest view count I could find for a Mozart composition was 35 million. Something wrong with the world today.

If you want to really get depressed, just look at the Top 40 (or whatever list).. I'd say 80% of them are totally produced (especially R&B) i.e. the concept is drafted, music written, band chosen, marketing put in place..they just then find a 'pretty face'. (And there is a directly inverse relationship with the ones who tweet themselves each hour and their talent).

Darcy88
05-23-2013, 05:48 PM
If you want to really get depressed, just look at the Top 40 (or whatever list).. I'd say 80% of them are totally produced (especially R&B) i.e. the concept is drafted, music written, band chosen, marketing put in place..they just then find a 'pretty face'. (And there is a directly inverse relationship with the ones who tweet themselves each hour and their talent).

I actually like a lot of pop music, but you're right. Top 40 is full of artists devoid of talent. There is plenty of good music being made but it requires time and effort to seek it out.

*Classic*Charm*
05-23-2013, 08:08 PM
Hilarious. And absurd.

Darcy88
05-24-2013, 07:15 PM
Planning my great Canadian adventure.

*Classic*Charm*
05-27-2013, 07:22 PM
Why am I so argumentative lately?

Silas Thorne
05-27-2013, 08:35 PM
Why can't the doctor give me some more of this opium stuff? It's good.

Darcy88
05-27-2013, 08:40 PM
Shin splints have me immobilized. Could really use a wheel-chair.

Darcy88
06-01-2013, 11:01 PM
Whoa Joyce, just whoa.

Perhaps the most brilliant prose passages I've ever come across. Mind is thoroughly blown. Now I see what all the fuss is about.

Lykren
06-02-2013, 12:54 AM
Whoa Joyce, just whoa.

Perhaps the most brilliant prose passages I've ever come across. Mind is thoroughly blown. Now I see what all the fuss is about.

The Joyce Fan Club is always happy to welcome another member.

So, what did you read of his?

Darcy88
06-02-2013, 01:39 AM
The Joyce Fan Club is always happy to welcome another member.

So, what did you read of his?

I'm three quarters of the way through A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Great stuff.

Niamh
06-07-2013, 08:12 AM
I really need to get off my laptop and go back to packing up the flat!

Varenne Rodin
06-07-2013, 09:17 AM
I can't seem to sleep. I should have gotten up in the night to turn on the air conditioner. Now I'll never know what dreams I could have had.

papayahed
06-08-2013, 11:57 AM
I feel out of the loop.

Melanie
06-08-2013, 01:39 PM
double post deleted (sorry)

Melanie
06-08-2013, 01:42 PM
I feel out of the loop
Well, you're standing outside in the rain, you papayahead. :) Here, I'll hold the door for you.

I'm wondering, is it just me or is this younger generational music mostly cry-baby-whining about relationships. It's all the same...waa waa waa. Previous generations weren't so saturated with that.

Gilliatt Gurgle
06-08-2013, 09:54 PM
...
I'm wondering, is it just me or is this younger generational music mostly cry-baby-whining about relationships. It's all the same...waa waa waa. Previous generations weren't so saturated with that.

Ha!, Oh it was there, only it was handled with a timeless class...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs

.

Melanie
06-09-2013, 04:22 PM
Great links, thanks. Yes, timeless class back then for sure, but that was before i was born...that felt good to say...can't often say that :) I was thinking more like the 60's and 70's as compared to taylor swift type he-done-me-wrong songs. And what is all the uh-ohing about? Swift, Pink, even guys. If I hear another song that says uh oh I'm going to scream.

Silas Thorne
06-09-2013, 06:25 PM
I'm wondering if I should join the queue in the cafe, or wait a while in the perhaps vain hope that the flow of people will stop.

Darcy88
06-09-2013, 07:17 PM
New leather jacket. New aviators. Lock up your daughters.

hypatia_
06-10-2013, 12:12 AM
why do i need substances to calm myself

toni
06-10-2013, 12:03 PM
I haven't been here in awhile. So much has changed.

Darcy88
06-11-2013, 08:27 PM
Gonna get back into meditation. Meditate 20 minutes in the morning and then again at night to start. I'm not going to attach to it the Zen philosophy like I did before. Better to just go at it without expectation, free as a bird.

hypatia_
06-11-2013, 09:11 PM
Gonna get back into meditation. Meditate 20 minutes in the morning and then again at night to start. I'm not going to attach to it the Zen philosophy like I did before. Better to just go at it without expectation, free as a bird.

Totally agree. Mental constructs are a burden and are unneeded anyway compared to the vastness inside of you. Oh wait, that might be a mental construct. :P

Snowqueen
06-12-2013, 09:58 AM
I'm getting late for my evening walk. Got to go!

Helga
06-12-2013, 10:27 AM
Just finished putting up a trampoline with a security net and man it's a pain! My back aches and my fingers are just getting limber again. But my son and his friend are jumping happily so I'll live, just wish I didn't have to wait for the friend to leave to take a shower.

cafolini
06-12-2013, 12:28 PM
I have a battery of very precise one-and-few-liners to answer what doesn't deserve more than that. I love mortars.

hypatia_
06-12-2013, 05:43 PM
cafo, everything is deserving of more than a one-liner. take the opportunity to teach, not ridicule lol.

JuniperWoolf
06-16-2013, 09:09 PM
Oh I feel like ****,
But at least I feel something.

Yesterday was a nauseous adventure.

*Classic*Charm*
06-16-2013, 10:38 PM
Haven't had a night like that in a while...

LutherSeahand
06-17-2013, 01:55 AM
Gentle Dream

The finest day of spring
Petals dance on sudden gales
Counting everyone
Before the sinking sun
Fly, fly little wings
Like love that never fails

Shadows begin to wake
To a chorus that is the night
Crickets fiddle, slow
Warblers whistle, low
Shine, shine velvet moon
Till last you fade from sight

Hear the sea in song
Where the swallows play and die
Starlight in the haze
Flicker fireflies, ablaze
Stay, stay gentle dream
Beneath the candles in the sky

Darcy88
06-17-2013, 02:04 AM
Nice poem Luther.

Was a big flash in the sky just now.

Mathor
06-17-2013, 02:09 AM
Touch, I remember touch
Pictures came with touch
A painter in my mind
Tell me what you see

A tourist in a dream
A visitor it seems
A half-forgotten song
Where do I belong?
Tell me what you see
I need something more

Kiss
Suddenly alive
Happiness arrive
Hunger like a storm
How do I begin?

A room within a room
A door behind a door
Touch, where do you lead?
I need something more
Tell me what you see
I need something more

(Home..)
Hold on
If love is the answer you're home.

Touch
Sweet touch
You've given me too much to feel
Sweet touch
You've almost convinced me I'm real

I need something more
I need something.. more

Darcy88
06-18-2013, 02:47 PM
Quit smoking cigarettes. I feel like each of my cells all throughout my body and my brain are being cruelly and relentlessly assailed by nanotechnological torture devices. There is no feeling to compare. Not a migraine, not a hangover, not a broken-heart. What I feel now can be no less worse than the very fires of hell. I am in room 101.

Serves me right for picking up the pointless pernicious habit in the first place.

prendrelemick
06-18-2013, 05:18 PM
Just watching World leaders of the G8 trying to walk confidently but not seeming too pushy, purposefull though relaxed, looking into the far distance like men of vision, and NO MINCING!!

Obama gets it right, Cameron looks like he's been practising, Putin couldn't care less.

Emil Miller
06-18-2013, 05:52 PM
Just watching World leaders of the G8 trying to walk confidently but not seeming too pushy, purposefull though relaxed, looking into the far distance like men of vision, and NO MINCING!!

Obama gets it right, Cameron looks like he's been practising, Putin couldn't care less.

Putin doesn't care less; why should he? That man has more political nous than Cameron, Obama and all the others put together.

prendrelemick
06-19-2013, 03:40 AM
Haven't had a night like that in a while...

Details please.....If you've recovered!

*Classic*Charm*
06-19-2013, 11:07 PM
Details please.....If you've recovered!

Post-break-up partying. Showed up for Father's Day breakfast still hammered. Good thing Dad thought it was hilarious.

Current thought: Nothing like a tomcat with a blocked urethra to make your day feel long...

Helga
06-20-2013, 01:10 PM
I hate the sun! The weather has been very 'good' today, to hot to stay inside so I have been doing some work on my garden furniture and I feel dirty. Sun makes me feel dirty, being outside, dirty. Did manage to read a few chapters though under my sun-umbrella thingy on very good looking chairs.

tonywalt
06-20-2013, 01:36 PM
Pub quiz tonite! yes! (it's the little things that I LIKE!)

JuniperWoolf
06-20-2013, 07:13 PM
I hate the sun!

I usually do too but I'd take some sun right about now. The perpetual drizzle in Vancouver has a way of making you feel like you're always covered in a thin layer of slime.

Darcy88
06-24-2013, 10:51 PM
My grand-mother gave me a photograph of my grand-father taken in the year 1929. A professional photographer happened to be driving past the family's rural Saskatchewan property when he saw my grand-father, aged 5 or 6 at the time, cradling his dog before a scene of white wintry wonder. He has a markedly madonna-like aspect to his face in the photo, his hands gently round the dog as though it were the baby Jesus. Sounds strange but not when seen. Apparently the photo was in Maclean's Magazine, but I've not seen the issue. I'll try to scan it and post it. It is very cool.

Wizard272002
07-01-2013, 06:20 PM
http://card.psnprofiles.com/1/BoltWiz1973.png

Lykren
07-03-2013, 09:59 PM
Do you know why I am the smartest person in the world? I'll tell you why I am the smartest person in the world.

I got hot sauce on my tool.

*Classic*Charm*
07-13-2013, 10:18 PM
My cat just got skunked. Worst.

tailor STATELY
07-13-2013, 10:35 PM
Driveway looks empty with the truck gone (sigh).

Time to feed the outdoor critters.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

faithosaurus
07-13-2013, 11:37 PM
Zimmerman...why...

JuniperWoolf
07-14-2013, 11:36 PM
Why would they pour salt into a Blood Eagle? Can that kind of pain really be exacerbated?

Melanie
07-15-2013, 05:44 AM
I'm thinking about this but wish I didn't have to:

A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots
(Attributed to Jeff Foxworthy...but snopes says "False")

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

Volya
07-15-2013, 06:23 AM
I am thinking that today is going to turn out dreadful or amazing.

Helga
07-15-2013, 01:44 PM
I'm thinking about praying to all the gods out there, just in case there is one, for my dog to get better and for me to get my first night of decent sleep in a week. I have been sooo tired!

Volya
07-15-2013, 02:17 PM
I am thinking that today was good. After reading what Helga was thinking I am also hoping that her dog gets better :(

Helga
07-17-2013, 06:15 AM
modern science does the trick

tonywalt
07-17-2013, 09:58 AM
I'm thinking of taking it really easy now...deservedly!

quidoftullamore
07-17-2013, 07:23 PM
I'm hungry.

faithosaurus
07-18-2013, 11:17 AM
I never realized how much I love roller-coasters.

Darcy88
07-18-2013, 09:23 PM
So long as each day I can listen to U2, meditate, go for a walk and read a little of a great book I count myself a contented man. Torture me the other 21 hours of the day, confine to me a cage, whatever, as long as those four basic objectives are met the rest doesn't matter.

Jancarlo
07-20-2013, 12:26 AM
I'm thinking I really need a haircut, I'll try to get one tomorrow and after that go pick up my paycheck at my last workplace.

Pensive
07-20-2013, 02:25 PM
This. 8835

Darcy88
07-20-2013, 05:00 PM
I just realized my actual first and middle names can be together translated literally as "Prince of Darkness." My last girlfriend mused that I might have been either an angel or the devil himself in disguise, but at our last communication had settled on the latter. LOL.

I guess I got a good sobriquet should I ever become a fighter, a porn-star or a super-villain.

Snowqueen
07-21-2013, 04:21 AM
This. 8835


I’ve just read the poem. It seems quite a serious matter to me, Pensy! Does your family know about it?
Don't worry, you can share it with me anytime! :smilewinkgrin:

JuniperWoolf
07-21-2013, 11:09 AM
In some ways I like coming back to my town during the summer. I get to actually hang out with friends I've had since birth, I love the thunderstorms in the rockies, and reading in a lawn chair on my own lawn beats reading on a park bench. However, a large part of me hates coming home, because I keep having the same casual conversation with old acquaintances over and over again. Every day I've been here so far has had at least three of these:

"Heeey, I didn't know you were in town!"
Yeah, back from Vancouver for the summer. You know, to save on rent and food."
"What are you doing these days"
Living, going to school.
"What are you taking?"
Psychology, English, Biology, Japanese, lots of things.
*confused and/or condescending expression* "What can you do with that?"
*enumerate several post-graduate options that strike me as potentially fulfilling, most of which are not high-paying and some of which don't require a degree.
"What a waste. You guys should have just stayed here, work at the mine and drive a truck like me/my family member(s)."
*polite laugh and comment about how "I'd sure make more money"*
"What's Dave doing?"
Making movies.
*incredulent expresion* "Does he make much money off that?"
Nope, next to nothing.
*Gets embarrassed and quickly changes the subject, as a man Dave is considered a failure by rural Alberta standards* "...So, when are you guys going to start a family?"

You know what I'd rather do than stay in Grande Cache, work at the mine, and start a family? I'd rather cut open my belly, pull out my entrails, wrap them around my neck, and hang myself from a tree, because at least then the suffering would be over quickly. A lot of people here are great, I watched a dozen of my favorites put out a house fire yesterday, they have personalities, they have intrerests beyond judging other people and drinking. On the other hand, some people here are just dead-eyed yokels who can't comprehend any lifestyle that isn't situated around either making money or having children.

prendrelemick
07-22-2013, 02:47 AM
Oh look, a pregnant woman has gone into labour. I won't be turning on the telly for a few days while the furore dies down.

Darcy88
07-22-2013, 04:11 AM
Thich Nhat Hanh is awesome.

Also, I've been there Juniper. I don't get it much anymore because most such people are off at the oil patch and the ones left have accepted that I'm different.

Helga
07-22-2013, 06:03 AM
Oh Juniper I get that same questions all the time (not about Dave though)

'What can you do with a literature degree?' 'no one knows...'

People want everyone to make money all the time. I live a very good life with very little money.

There must be something wrong, either with me or them depending on your viewpoint.

qimissung
07-22-2013, 06:34 PM
In some ways I like coming back to my town during the summer. I get to actually hang out with friends I've had since birth, I love the thunderstorms in the rockies, and reading in a lawn chair on my own lawn beats reading on a park bench. However, a large part of me hates coming home, because I keep having the same casual conversation with old acquaintances over and over again. Every day I've been here so far has had at least three of these:

"Heeey, I didn't know you were in town!"
Yeah, back from Vancouver for the summer. You know, to save on rent and food."
"What are you doing these days"
Living, going to school.
"What are you taking?"
Psychology, English, Biology, Japanese, lots of things.
*confused and/or condescending expression* "What can you do with that?"
*enumerate several post-graduate options that strike me as potentially fulfilling, most of which are not high-paying and some of which don't require a degree.
"What a waste. You guys should have just stayed here, work at the mine and drive a truck like me/my family member(s)."
*polite laugh and comment about how "I'd sure make more money"*
"What's Dave doing?"
Making movies.
*incredulent expresion* "Does he make much money off that?"
Nope, next to nothing.
*Gets embarrassed and quickly changes the subject, as a man Dave is considered a failure by rural Alberta standards* "...So, when are you guys going to start a family?"

You know what I'd rather do than stay in Grande Cache, work at the mine, and start a family? I'd rather cut open my belly, pull out my entrails, wrap them around my neck, and hang myself from a tree, because at least then the suffering would be over quickly. A lot of people here are great, I watched a dozen of my favorites put out a house fire yesterday, they have personalities, they have intrerests beyond judging other people and drinking. On the other hand, some people here are just dead-eyed yokels who can't comprehend any lifestyle that isn't situated around either making money or having children.

:lol: That reminds me of when I was young, single, and living in a small town. Somehow, they always managed to ask whether or not I was married. That's some good writing there, Jun. Oh, wait, that doesn't pay either, does it. No worries, though, this too shall pass.

qimissung
07-22-2013, 06:35 PM
Oh look, a pregnant woman has gone into labour. I won't be turning on the telly for a few days while the furore dies down.

She had the baby! O frabjious day! You can turn the TV on again, prendrelemick.

Snowqueen
07-25-2013, 07:33 AM
It rained early this morning, but made no difference and weather is still very hot.

Pensive
07-25-2013, 06:09 PM
I am thinking about the vacations which are starting for me tomorrow after this summer job. Also thinking about how lucky I was to have found something so satisfactory and fun. I actually kind of miss it!


I’ve just read the poem. It seems quite a serious matter to me, Pensy! Does your family know about it?
Don't worry, you can share it with me anytime! :smilewinkgrin:

:D
It's just my love for poetry. But I will keep you in mind to share it with, if it ever comes to that. :p

tailor STATELY
07-25-2013, 06:29 PM
Editing eBooks. Will it ever end ?

*Classic*Charm*
07-26-2013, 01:46 AM
How sentimental of me...

Darcy88
07-26-2013, 02:55 PM
I wear my Elmer Fud cap in the full blistering late July heat in order to thwart the creepy beach-going tourist teens.

Calidore
07-26-2013, 04:09 PM
I wear my Elmer Fud cap in the full blistering late July heat in order to thwart the creepy beach-going tourist teens.

An Elmer Fudd shotgun would also work well.

Darcy88
07-26-2013, 04:32 PM
An Elmer Fudd shotgun would also work well.

I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. He mixed an Elmer Fudd cap with an Elmer Fudd shotgun and it did not end well.

tailor STATELY
07-26-2013, 11:51 PM
The wabbit did it.

Calidore
07-27-2013, 12:00 AM
I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. He mixed an Elmer Fudd cap with an Elmer Fudd shotgun and it did not end well.

He misread the instructions; rather than use the shotgun to get something to eat, he ate the shotgun.

JuniperWoolf
07-30-2013, 04:20 AM
Didn't we have a drunk thread around here somewhere? How are we supposed to find that thread when we're drunk? I walked all around my highschool and looked in the windows. The science lab stools look smaller than they used to. Also Pilsner is starting to taste like ambrosia.

Darcy88
07-30-2013, 03:37 PM
They need to develop a make up for men that gives one the appearance of having a five o'clock shadow, for those of us in our early-mid twenties who grow facial hair at the rate of a pubescent boy. I don't like looking like a 15 year old elf for the 5 days after I shave.

tonywalt
07-30-2013, 04:00 PM
They need to develop a make up for men that gives one the appearance of having a five o'clock shadow, for those of us in our early-mid twenties who grow facial hair at the rate of a pubescent boy. I don't like looking like a 15 year old elf for the 5 days after I shave.

Wait a couple years..

Darcy88
07-30-2013, 04:07 PM
Wait a couple years..

I'm nearly 25. I've been waiting since 18. I got so tired of being mistaken for a teenager I just went 11 straight months without shaving, just giving my face a neat trim. And with my funny ears after I shave I sometimes get rednecks yelling from their big trucks "you @#$$%! ELF!"

Reclusive slow-aging funny-eared folk like myself were the ancient empirical evidence on which the mythology of elves was based.

papayahed
07-30-2013, 09:31 PM
Crap!!!!!!! I just left eggs boiling for about an hour now. Think they're done?

Calidore
07-30-2013, 09:55 PM
They need to develop a make up for men that gives one the appearance of having a five o'clock shadow, for those of us in our early-mid twenties who grow facial hair at the rate of a pubescent boy. I don't like looking like a 15 year old elf for the 5 days after I shave.

Some electric razors are adjustable so you can give yourself that effect.

*Classic*Charm*
07-31-2013, 12:27 AM
Wish I had put the scrubs in the wash this morning...

papayahed
08-04-2013, 09:13 AM
What should I have for breakfast?

tailor STATELY
08-12-2013, 03:28 AM
BOX 17 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (running around in circles yelling with hair metaphorically on fire)

*Classic*Charm*
08-13-2013, 12:58 AM
Flights are booked!! I'm going to Europe!!

Satan
08-13-2013, 06:54 PM
^Awesome!

Why did I signup for this? Why are people so fscked-up? Do I really like this, or am I just running away from something and destroying everything that crosses my path?

Buh4Bee
08-14-2013, 05:58 PM
That I'm boxed into a corner over BS.

tailor STATELY
08-14-2013, 06:11 PM
Bittersweet Me (R.E.M.)

Tournesol
08-14-2013, 11:07 PM
Ate that super-spicy Indian food from the restaurant, and now I have awful acid reflux! I should've just stuck with my eggs and toast! hmph!

NikolaiI
08-19-2013, 05:38 PM
I want to see the Redwoods. . .



The place I camp is Butano State Park. It is a redwood forest. Did I mention that it's a redwood forest? That it comes with daytime darkness and extra silence? And did I mention that there's not much for ants and bees and flies and mosquitoes to do at human level, so there aren't any? And that the dominant representative of the animal kingdom is the banana slug? And that when you walk in the forest, on the duff carpet, you are not really walking next to the trees, you are walking through them, because really, the ground itself is just more and more redwood stuff, and the whole forest is like one really big tree?

faithosaurus
08-19-2013, 08:21 PM
I hate being back at school...

Buh4Bee
08-19-2013, 08:41 PM
I think many feel this way.

tailor STATELY
08-20-2013, 12:28 AM
Oh! to be in school again !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Love Literature
08-22-2013, 07:14 AM
thAt girL iS nOt giRL...shE iS mAkinG mE fOoL... :/ iT meanS shE iS he... :O

*Classic*Charm*
08-22-2013, 10:20 PM
I've been a fool for lesser things.

Lykren
08-22-2013, 11:54 PM
I think I'm getting high for the first time.

Oedipus
09-18-2013, 10:20 AM
There is nothing so horrible as a certain kind of people that fill the Internet today; not the illiterate rabble of Youtube comments or 4chan, but the insidious people: the pseudo-intellectuals with their cult of the 'quirky', ironic since of course you can't get less imaginative than these vacuous people: more conformist, that is. The kind of empty vapid who will spend a few minutes feeding someone some platitude about 'beauty being on the inside' and than spend a good half hour laughing at girls who have dared to not fit their demands of attractiveness, or men with less hair than someone else. These people are the mucus of society, the suppurating pimple on the fair face of today. My, how I hate them - do you?

cafolini
09-18-2013, 11:15 AM
There is nothing so horrible as a certain kind of people that fill the Internet today; not the illiterate rabble of Youtube comments or 4chan, but the insidious people: the pseudo-intellectuals with their cult of the 'quirky', ironic since of course you can't get less imaginative than these vacuous people: more conformist, that is. The kind of empty vapid who will spend a few minutes feeding someone some platitude about 'beauty being on the inside' and than spend a good half hour laughing at girls who have dared to not fit their demands of attractiveness, or men with less hair than someone else. These people are the mucus of society, the suppurating pimple on the fair face of today. My, how I hate them - do you?

No, I don't hate them. I love them in their stupidity, for what you are saying is true and must be accepted. We work with what's possible. God be with you.

tailor STATELY
09-20-2013, 01:30 AM
So I'm visiting in the greater Seattle, Washington area (Maple Valley)... When should I go back home ?

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Calidore
09-20-2013, 11:18 PM
I'm going to a wedding next month with my female best friend as my date, and she's just confirmed that I'm going to have to dance. Pray for me.

papayahed
09-21-2013, 10:32 AM
Why can't I get off this computer and do some work!

Snowqueen
09-22-2013, 04:51 AM
Oh, my nieces just arrived, got to go!

Basil
09-22-2013, 05:20 PM
I'm going to a wedding next month with my female best friend as my date, and she's just confirmed that I'm going to have to dance. Pray for me.
Let Paul Rudd be your Terpsichore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcd3Pu8ltwQ

prendrelemick
09-23-2013, 02:42 AM
I've got a cold, I'm tired, it's monday, I have to work.

Scheherazade
09-23-2013, 03:58 AM
I've got a cold, I'm tired, it's monday, I have to work.Do what everyone else does! Call in sick... Though who you'd call in your case, I don't know.

tailor STATELY
09-23-2013, 12:16 PM
Going home.

cafolini
09-23-2013, 01:55 PM
I'm waiting for the dictator of Syria to be overthrown by the rebels, as Gadaffi in Libya.

Paulclem
09-23-2013, 05:44 PM
I'm wondering what I'm thinking.

Oh yes - have you noticed the rise in nostalgia groups on Facebook? I've joined one about the nightclub I used to go to - it was an alternative one - and one about living in Wakefield where i'm from.

Disappointingly, the one concerned with Wakefield has people saying many of the things the local group is saying. Perhaps I should post this as a thread. Hmm. that must be what I'm thinking.

tailor STATELY
09-23-2013, 08:43 PM
Portland !

Helga
09-24-2013, 03:10 PM
people are crap ( not all of course, just the ones I need to deal with)