Isolated Blurt Thread

[TheeGoatPig]

I tried it last night and it didn't work. I couldn't breath throuhg my nose at all. I have also been dozing off all day. I'm tired of being in bed. I want to get up and dooooo0 something. I'm just trying to stay up long enough to watch all of UFC 145, and then I will try to get osme more sleep.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I feel much better this morning. What a relief...

I had waffles for breakfast too

 

[TxRad]

One lost thumbdrive doesn't sound too bad until you factor in the fact that it hasn't been backed up to my computer since the first week in February.

I don't even want to think about what has been lost.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

*bangs head on table* I hate it when you are reading something and it's been edited and one of our eyes missed it, or they caught it and I missed it and then it appears and it's there screaming at you like a dancing naked - taunting you and pointing at you and saying "Ha! You are NOT perfect!" - when you know you really are.

 

[Noor]

glad that carousel scene from Strangers on a Train was so unrealistic and impossible.

 

[oggbashan]

Why is it that some NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) are sane and sensible, producing reasoned arguments against a contentious proposal, and others are just blinkered fools who cannot accept that their opposition is based on a complete misunderstanding of what is to happen?

Local examples:

1. A commercial company no one had heard of proposed to built leisure 'pods' on public open space. Before they made a formal application to our council which would have been rejected outright, a NIMBY started a campaign to turn the public open space, which was already protected by legislation and planning laws, into a Village Green.

A 'Village Green' would give no more protection than the open space already had, but would prevent some long-standing leisure activities from continuing. Despite our council unanimously rejecting the leisure pods and reaffirming the status of the open space, the NIMBY has continued with his campaign for a 'Village Green' despite informed and articulate opposition by the users of the open space. He has now cost our council taxpayers at least £30,000 in unnecessary legal costs and the bill will rise to £50,000 or more before the matter is settled.

2. Our 'In Bloom' group have been given permission to set up a wild flower area in a neglected area of grassland. To do this, they have to kill the grass and weeds so have applied weedkiller. They will be digging up the area in a week or so's time. Three people have complained that the weedkilled area is 'unsightly' and a waste of public money. They hadn't read the local papers, the websites, nor the leaflets put through their doors.

The 'In Bloom' group consulted local people near the grassland before making the suggestion. The three didn't respond. The 'In Bloom' group is paying all the costs and using unpaid volunteers. No public money is involved.

Yet the three have continued to write to the local papers complaining that the work is 'unnecessary', 'a drain on public funds' and 'inappropriate in a time of Council austerity'. They haven't read, or have ignored, the responses in the local papers that give the facts. Facts are unnecessary.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

The Gamespy forums, the first forums I ever signed up for, and moderated for around 8 years, disappeared the other day. I need to go searching for new forums to replace all of the old ones that have disappeared over the years.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Panty, bra, tank top - better throw on the pants before heading out the door.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Way to ignore the woman you used to think you were in love with, stupid...

 

[SweetMaj]

After this day I'm off to bed with a smile on my face.

Good night.

Zzzz...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

California's Bullet Train has ballooned in cost to 68 Billion. It will take twenty years to build, I suspect. Now the big question . . . who's gonna ride it? I mean, is there anyone who seriously believes that people will commute from L.A. to Stockton to work?

 

[Trombonus]

Finally started writing again! *pats self on back*

 

[TxRad]

Finally started writing again! *pats self on back*

At my age, just reaching my back is an accomplishment.

Congrats

 

[trysail]

Confirming what we've long known to be the case: i.e., that Krugman is an idiot—

“Krugman’s views are not closely related to the reality in which Bernanke is forced to operate,” said Anthony Karydakis, an adjunct professor of economics at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and former chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Asset Management.


“One of them has the responsibility of steering the economy through treacherous waters and the other has the luxury of sitting in his office and sending articles to the New York Times...”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...iticism-he-ignores-his-own-policy-advice.html

 

[ghostwriter092]

My blurt... Im taking part of it from Garth Brooks.

I want a woman like this

Were Two Of A kind, by Garth Brooks

Yes, she's my lady luck, hey, I'm her wild card man
Together we're buildin' up a real hot hand
We live out in the country, hey, she's my little queen of the south
Yea, we're two of a kind, workin' on a full house
She wakes me every mornin' with a smile and a kiss
Her strong country lovin' is hard to resist
She's my easy lovin' woman,
I'm her hard workin' man, no doubt
Yea, we're two of a kind, workin' on a full house
Yea, a pick-up truck is her limousine
And her favorite dress is her faded blue jeans
She loves me tender when the goin' gets tough
Somtimes we fight just so we can make up

Lord I need that little woman, like the crops need the rain
She's my honeycomb and I'm her sugar cane
We really fit together if you know what I'm talkin' about
Yea, we're two of a kind, workin' on a full house
This time I found a keeper, I made up my mind Lord the perfect combination is her heart and mine
The sky's the limit, no hill is too steep
We're playin' for fun but we're playin' for keeps
So draw the curtain, honey, turn the lights down low
We'll find some country music on the radio I'm yours and you're mine, hey, that's what it's all about
Yea, we're two of a kind, workin' on a full house
Lordy, mama, we'll be two of a kind, workin' on a full house


I realize that I just gave you all the lyrics to the most epic song in country right now, but hey, I am listening to it like 18 times in the last hour. I dont know. Its catchy. Anyway, If your wondering if im going to accredit the lyrics somewhere. Yes, I got them off of metolyrics.com . Anyway, it made me smile today. So

 

[TxRad]

Starting a new page on a thread is like a shiny new car before it rains.

 

[oggbashan]

Whatever happened to the Black Hat/White Hat genre of Westerns - the books in which the hero always wins the gunfight AND gets the girl?

Prime exponents were Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. The UK equivalent was J T Edson but his villains were often soft-shell liberadicals...

My father used to read them in his 90s. He knew that they were formulaic but he also knew that if he fell asleep while reading one, he wouldn't miss anything...

They were in frequent but limited demand in my secondhand bookshop but are now rarely seen in new paperbacks.

Have readers become more demanding?

 

[Gi_Venus]

Whatever happened to the Black Hat/White Hat genre of Westerns - the books in which the hero always wins the gunfight AND gets the girl?

Prime exponents were Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. The UK equivalent was J T Edson but his villains were often soft-shell liberadicals...

My father used to read them in his 90s. He knew that they were formulaic but he also knew that if he fell asleep while reading one, he wouldn't miss anything...

They were in frequent but limited demand in my secondhand bookshop but are now rarely seen in new paperbacks.

Have readers become more demanding?

when I was younger I used to read a lot of Louis L' Amour Lol one could consume one or two books a day.

 

[OzoneRed]

Whatever happened to the Black Hat/White Hat genre of Westerns - the books in which the hero always wins the gunfight AND gets the girl?

Prime exponents were Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. The UK equivalent was J T Edson but his villains were often soft-shell liberadicals...

My father used to read them in his 90s. He knew that they were formulaic but he also knew that if he fell asleep while reading one, he wouldn't miss anything...

They were in frequent but limited demand in my secondhand bookshop but are now rarely seen in new paperbacks.

Have readers become more demanding?

Not more demanding, just more cynical.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I drive most places that I go. The only place I don't drive to is the Applebees next to where I work, and yet I still pull my car keys out when I leave there to head back to my office.

When I was in Vegas, I left my car keys at home, and yet I was still reaching for them every time I left a casino.

__

And this morning I dreamed that I lived on Long Beach Island (summer homes along the southern Jersey shore), and worked in Atlantic City in a Casino. Every other woman that I have crushed on in the last few years was in that dream...

 

[SweetMaj]

I feel like I'm loosing my mind today.

I'm unable to smile and I feel like arguing.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I know I have seen the trailers a few times each now, but HOT DAMN I want to see The Avengers so badly on Saturday...

 

[carsonshepherd]

First I found out (through the grapevine) my landlord has sold my house, but hasn't told me yet.

I have no idea where I'm going to live.

Second, the horse I have been taking care of found a new home today. I knew it was coming, and it's better for him, but I'm still going to miss him.

People who toss animals aside when they're of no use anymore make me sick. He's 22 years old and blind, but he still deserves a good life.

I hope the people who adopted him give him that.

 

[oggbashan]

Two blurts:

1. Wife's car passed its annual Road Safety (MOT) test last week with three advisory notes on the tyres. One was close to the legal limit, one had a nail in it, and the spare had very little air (= none) in it.

I took it to the tyre suppliers I have been using for the last 30 years. They had the horrors. The tyre 'close to the legal limit' was bald for one third of the tread; the one with a nail in it had a gouge out of the side wall that exposed the canvas. Both should have been instant MOT fails. Two new tyres later and we're legal again. No, they weren't just trying to sell me new tyres. That's why I have happily been using them for the last 30 years. Once the wheels were removed I could see the faults. They were obvious.

2. Today is my birthday. Despite receiving several cards and presents and a granddaughter-made birthday cake yesterday, it was an hour after getting up before I remembered it was my birthday. Once you get past pensionable age, only those birthdays with a zero on the end are significant.

 

[TxRad]

Two blurts:

1. Wife's car passed its annual Road Safety (MOT) test last week with three advisory notes on the tyres. One was close to the legal limit, one had a nail in it, and the spare had very little air (= none) in it.

I took it to the tyre suppliers I have been using for the last 30 years. They had the horrors. The tyre 'close to the legal limit' was bald for one third of the tread; the one with a nail in it had a gouge out of the side wall that exposed the canvas. Both should have been instant MOT fails. Two new tyres later and we're legal again. No, they weren't just trying to sell me new tyres. That's why I have happily been using them for the last 30 years. Once the wheels were removed I could see the faults. They were obvious.

2. Today is my birthday. Despite receiving several cards and presents and a granddaughter-made birthday cake yesterday, it was an hour after getting up before I remembered it was my birthday. Once you get past pensionable age, only those birthdays with a zero on the end are significant.

Happy wife, Happy Motoring, and most of all, Happy Birthday.