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Post by petrushka on Mar 21, 2021 2:25:40 GMT -5
never argue with a fool bystanders might not be able to tell the difference
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Post by petrushka on Mar 17, 2021 23:45:31 GMT -5
Vanity, fashion, "brand recognition". Gullibility, follow the herd, ignorance... There are reasons big manufacturers pay sport stars and actors/actresses megabucks to represent their products. Because they make those megabucks back, and more. Every time I see someone drawing welfare cheques run around with an iphone ... all I can do is roll my eyes. But it's "the thing to do".
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Post by petrushka on Mar 13, 2021 17:39:07 GMT -5
Incidentally, the "Pamela Stevens" referred to in the article is an Australian, was an actress in the late 70's, moved to England and continued her career (mainly in sketch comedy) She abandoned her acting career, and qualified as a psychologist and has been practicing for probably 20 years now. She married Billy Connelly (a Scot bloke, and pretty famous comedian) Billy has Parkinsons Disease. Pamela's advice is usually along the same lines as this group. Possibly, Pamela's response in this case was mangled by a sub editor at The Guardian to fit the space available.
I thought she was absolutely brilliant in "Not the Nine O'Clock News".
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Post by petrushka on Mar 12, 2021 1:29:31 GMT -5
Sadly, I found Pamela's advice piss poor, and not for the first time. Insipid. She ignores that two people need to want to work on it, she ignores that hope for the future is not enough. She buys wholesale into whatever weak excuses are forthcoming. Basically it's a tepid: "there, there, it will be all right". As I said, I have seen this very thing from her before. It's a pity I missed this article when comments were still open, or I would have lit into her.
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Post by petrushka on Mar 11, 2021 2:48:30 GMT -5
And plastic, actually. A lot of Chinese plastic is complete rubbish. We had plastic switches break on a brand new washing machine made in ... you guessed it. Bosch stopped making washing machines in China and moved to Malaysia I think. But there were other incidents, other manufacturers, other items.
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Whoopsy
Mar 6, 2021 14:58:12 GMT -5
Post by petrushka on Mar 6, 2021 14:58:12 GMT -5
Oh my, you had a narrow escape @rosie . As I recall over 225,000 people drowned that day. I have seen video of the Phuket tsunami. Brrrr! {shudders}
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Post by petrushka on Mar 5, 2021 1:16:12 GMT -5
Woke up this morning to reports of 3 big earthquakes. a 7.4 off the East Coast of New Zealand at 2 am, then, around 7 am, another 7.4 in the Kermadec Islands and lastly a big-un: 8.1 around 8:15 am.
Tsunami warnings went out, and in my town, Whangarei, a certain amount of traffic chaos ensued. The Kermadecs are about 1000km away from us, so there was a great deal of uncertainty. Downtown was evacuated because it's at sea level. I had my car booked in for a service, and we agreed to reschedule that!
Well by about 4 pm the 'all clear' was declared.
Any earthquake above 8 is one very rare, and significant one. Glad it wasn't any closer.
The step from 7 to 8 means 10 times stronger.
If I remember the numbers right, that one was like someone blowing up 5 million tons of TNT.
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Post by petrushka on Mar 3, 2021 6:49:33 GMT -5
She doesn't get much chance to mature. He doesn't give her the opportunity. I hope communication with her will continue and improve. But it is walking on egg shells. knowing that her dad controls everything. Her dad controls himself. She controls herself. The problem with him is, that he needs to control everything and everybody around him.
My memory from (was it 4 years ago?) says he is OCD, phobic, paranoid, extremely controlling, unable or unwilling to work, had more or less managed to cut off tamara68 from contact with other people (I remember his smashing her tablet, randomly changing the password on the wifi, messing with -- was it the tv or the computer).
The guy was One Sick Puppy. Many of us at the time of the break-up were very worried about tamara's wellbeing.
Realistically he should be in care. He certainly has many of the traits of the kind of guy who will kill a woman rather than let her walk away.
He got to the daughter when tamara finally struggled free. The daughter bought into whatever poison he fed her. Very regrettable, very sad. He kept her out of school iirc at least part time.
I am really sorry to hear about all this shit still going on tamara68 .
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Post by petrushka on Mar 2, 2021 14:43:49 GMT -5
Okay that's exactly what it sounds like. Thought it was a euphemism. it IS a euphemism -- you thought right.
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Post by petrushka on Feb 25, 2021 20:28:36 GMT -5
I joined this board and immediately thought to myself, "do I really have read all 57 pages of introductions?" Short answer: no. I'm Rosie, married 25 years, live in the US Midwest. Things skewed about eight to ten years ago. Unlike Back to the Future Part Deux, it's difficult to tell when exactly it went wrong. The love is there, but not the physical side. There. That's the Cliff's Notes version. Stay tuned for the full 752 page story of how Moby isn't getting dick. Speaking of dick, none in my DMs, please.
Don't you think that's a little unfair to the Richards of this world?
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Post by petrushka on Feb 23, 2021 12:35:54 GMT -5
Non sequitur: 10 on the disappointment scale of 1-5 over just how stupid and ignorant a large number of sheeple are. THAT is the disappointment that gets me and keeps me exasperated these days. I'm 67 (so proboard can't add up) and have type II diabetes so ED is an issue with a disappointment factor of maybe 3. If I had a willing sex partner, something would be done about it! Besides, my kink is sensuality and oral sex, penetrative has never held the same attraction for me. (the good news is that my eyes, my kidneys and my toes remain completely unaffected by the diabetes). However, looking around me, I would say that my relationship with my wife has a very high degree of intimacy and caring so after 18 years of no-sex that particular disappointment just about fades into the background noise. Got it managed. I've been looking for the last 12 years, and I simply haven't found a woman with whom I'd like to strike up another intimate physical relationship: I'm picky, and, these days, slow to trust enough to give my heart away. As far as any FWB relationship of mine is concerned, Friend comes first, trust and compatibility come second, and carnal benefits come last - are, in fact, the icing on the cake. What? Penetration doesn't do it for you? I love this because it makes it more acceptable that H may think his mattress texture is better than penetration. Although, FWB liked it and if there's one thing I learned from sex outside and in past R's is that l am desirable even if l don't think I am good looking. I never even looked at that as a possibility. I thought sensuality automatically went with penetrative connectedness. My ego is bruised too, especially as I get older. Oh, I have had plenty of penetrative sex, I am not at all adverse. What I am saying is that oral (particularly if I am going down on a lady friend) is more fun for me. One does not preclude t'other, jerri !
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Post by petrushka on Feb 21, 2021 19:39:17 GMT -5
Non sequitur: 10 on the disappointment scale of 1-5 over just how stupid and ignorant a large number of sheeple are. THAT is the disappointment that gets me and keeps me exasperated these days.
I'm 67 (so proboard can't add up) and have type II diabetes so ED is an issue with a disappointment factor of maybe 3. If I had a willing sex partner, something would be done about it! Besides, my kink is sensuality and oral sex, penetrative has never held the same attraction for me. (the good news is that my eyes, my kidneys and my toes remain completely unaffected by the diabetes). However, looking around me, I would say that my relationship with my wife has a very high degree of intimacy and caring so after 18 years of no-sex that particular disappointment just about fades into the background noise. Got it managed.
I've been looking for the last 12 years, and I simply haven't found a woman with whom I'd like to strike up another intimate physical relationship: I'm picky, and, these days, slow to trust enough to give my heart away. As far as any FWB relationship of mine is concerned, Friend comes first, trust and compatibility come second, and carnal benefits come last - are, in fact, the icing on the cake.
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Post by petrushka on Feb 19, 2021 21:44:24 GMT -5
A friend of ours was told by the doctors "sorry Penny, you have melanoma for the third time, and it's spread throughout your body, there's nothing we can do for you any more." So she simply up and left her husband. Didn't matter that he was absolutely heartbroken. She just, I don't know, didn't want to be tied down to this bloke for her last few months, and didn't give a fig for his feelings. Gone. Yes, you feel like a callous shit, leaving someone on their own who is dying. What regard does that dying person give to you? Does the fact that they suddenly know the when as being sooner rather than later give them a get out of jail free card in terms of not putting due care into their relationship? Do they get a free pass to be a completely self centered millstone around your neck? Which, maybe, they had already turned into before the news hit anyhow, just sayin'. That are just some thoughts your post inspired. I myself found myself in a moral dilemma when my ex-girlfriend (and the 'love of my life') came down with schizophrenia, a year after we had parted ways. I went back and cared for her ... for a while. She said she didn't want to get back together again, and I was on my way out of the country, but ... leave a loved one in a situation like that? She was not even the same person any more after the disease took her. I was distressed, absolutely crushed. But also, relieved not to be stuck caring for her for decades. Some times life's just shit, never mind which direction you walk in.
Don't know; I haven't really any solutions to offer, just some thoughts. My feeling is that if the other person doesn't want to put anything in, then really, they don't actually deserve a full commitment either, unless you want to martyr yourself. But we all have to make that call for ourselves.
)* footnote: A few weeks after her walk-out we heard that Penny had just dropped dead in main street in a 300km distant town: brain aneurysm. Fate can play funny tricks on you.
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Post by petrushka on Feb 18, 2021 22:15:57 GMT -5
My personal reaction is "so fucking what?". I've been trying to discourage people from using facebook (facilebook as I call them) for years and years -- mostly for reasons of cybersecurity because you would not believe the lengths that that company goes to to track you on the internet; they basically have their nose up your arse from the moment you subscribe, every time you fire up your web browser. Why on earth people would want to get their news coverage from there, a site notorious for disseminating all kinds of disinformation, lies, and conspiracy theories, is beyond me, when there are perfectly reputable sites available ( Handy listed a bunch of them, and for those who don't mind a bit of good critical reportage I'd add www.theguardian.com to his list). Sod facebook. The more people abandon that outfit, the better i.m.o. -- they're toxic. Zuckerberg is toxic - I've seen him and his weasel words at the senate (or was it congress?) enquiry. Meh.
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Post by petrushka on Feb 9, 2021 21:39:49 GMT -5
ironhamster has heard ivermectin, a parasite medicine, was anti-viral, so I checked it. Thought I'd post my minor search result and two others. While ivermectin appears to have stopped actual death, it wasn't helpful for preventing oxygen or ventilator needs. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.05.21249310v1.fullIt did prevent death by 7%, but that might be a fluke. There were only 112 patients.
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