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RedPixel posted...

I made a topic called "A vegan and a Marine are in a bar-- who tells you what they are first?" and I get modded for trolling, and meanwhile this shit is allowed to stay up?

Yeah, neither thread should really get to stay up. They're both rubbish, but yours was more of a bad (unfunny) joke than actively nauseating like this one.
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darcandkharg31 posted...

Agreed.

(Especially so since in my case that would involve not only incest but necromancy - sick!)
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OmegaM posted...

If we give up porn, does that mean we can no longer look at pics/videos of female athletes working out or doing their sport? What if it's a team photo of a bunch of female athletes in their tight, revealing uniforms/swimsuits?

That is not porn.
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Not much, just a few groceries. A 2-pint bottle of milk, a couple of ready meals, some wet wipes, a large bottle of mild bleach, tube of Germolene (phenol (carbolic acid) + chlorhexidine digluconate), a packet of paracetamol (acetaminophen for American users), and a couple of boxes of blueberry Nutrigrain bars (I eat a lot of these). That's all, today.
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My physical formats are sorted by format, then the CDs are on two separate bookcases, one for single-artist issues and a second for soundtracks, compilations & multiple-artist classical releases. With the exception of the latter, my CDs and cassettes are then alphabetised by artist, then in order of singles, compilation albums and regular albums, which are alphabetised within their sections. Vinyl is split between singles and LPs, then alphabetised by genre and artist (I don't fancy having Lacuna Coil and Leaves' Eyes stuck between Grieg and Rossini!).

Digital music files are foldered, artist -> album/single/EP -> songs numbered in order of original release. I mark compilations with an exclamation point at the start of the folder name, & EPs & singles get [EP] or [CDS] (I know, but it's consistent) before the title. I also try to format my album folders as "Title [year-format-bitrate]" within that.
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Well that's a no brainer. I don't bother watching porn anyway, unless I run across some of those random lesbian gifs on Twitter, so I wouldn't miss it. I can always write my own erotica if I feel like it (& being asexual I don't do much of that unless it's requested of me, either!)...
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mario2000 posted...

Anti-vaxxers are immediately dangerous while CC deniers are long-term dangerous.

Really, it's a coin flip.

Exactly.
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They may both get us all killed, but anti-vaxxers will probably do it faster.
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

hypnox's topic got me wondering. I would work, but maybe not the same thing I am doing now.

If I could, then yes.

That said, I wouldn't be any less impaired or ill than I am now whether or not UBI was introduced, and I'm already invalided out of the workforce, so practically speaking, I'd likely still be out of work.

Would I still want to do anything work-like? Sure. It might mean I got less abuse for struggling to do more than a handful of irregular hours, too... and that, I'd welcome.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

Trialia posted...

Well, before anything else the OP needs to learn the difference between gender and sex.

same thing

Moonjay posted...

I mean, the World Health Organization is pretty damn clear that gender and sex aren't the same thing. Sex involves your physical pieces and gender is a social construct.

https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/understanding/gender-definition/en/

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Well, before anything else the OP needs to learn the difference between gender and sex.

But if my female best friend suddenly acquired a cock, would I? Hell no. I don't swing that way. And I'm asexual anyway, so *shrugs*.
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FFS, Link, try to argue in good faith, please. UBI and "forced welfare" are not bloody synonymous! As somebody *on* welfare who will probably be stuck with my situation for the rest of my life, I frankly find that particular line of argument and its implications more than a little infuriating.

Re. the AV issue, I think both of you have some good points, and I think that I probably see that mainly because of the amount of human error *and* human bigotry that I have to cope with on public transport on a regular basis.

Part of the problem is that you cannot think about this solely from a detached distance. You can't - you miss too much doing that, pure and simple. The human element is only predictable to a certain extent. Past that...
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peanutt121 posted...

Trialia posted...

But, and this is the real point, I would never have wound up there in the first place if I weren't already chronically ill.

I guess I wasn't very clear and sounded like I was belittling those who had problems after whatever. My real point was everyone has a different response to surgical procedures. While I had virtually no problems, other people I knew were affected very harshly and spent weeks or months recovering. The injury I sustained in 1972 caused me to be bedridden for slightly over 2 years healing, yet the day I was first allowed to leave the hospital I walked nearly 3 miles on crutches without feeling any different than before my injury. Well until the next day and was sore as hell for a couple of days. Even that still didn't slow me down much. I consider myself very lucky in that respect.

Oh, no, I didn't think that.

Tbh, I was more elaborating on how the main two kinds of disability - in that particular sense anyway - have such different effects on potential recovery etc. By kinds I mean chronic illness is one thing, but stuff like amputated or missing limbs or similar injuries that don't really change over time are another... if that makes sense?

Of course they're not the only two sorts of situation that can fall under the umbrella of disability, but they do tend to rather contrast where the impact on general health is concerned.
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What on earth is supposed to be the difference between the last two options, anyway?

Pfft, genderqueer and content with it.
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peanutt121 posted...

For the moment skipping the original injury in 1972 (17 years old) that took 2 years and 32 major surgeries to fix, I had an outpatient mesh hernia repair in 2003. When I got home (drove myself) the 300yd driveway to my home was plowed in so I had to go get my snowblower and do the driveway before I could even get into my house. I had taken a week off from work but still had a business to run, but I had no signs of fatigue and was pretty much back to normal that same evening (49 years old). At age 63 (2017) the leg that had been repaired in 1972, but had been pretty much useless since, had a dormant infection reappear and caused me to have to have it amputated. I was in hospital about a month and a rehab unit about another 3 weeks learning to walk with a walker, balance and all the safety shit while waiting to heal enough to get a mech leg. I had plenty of energy at all times and spent most of my time trying to tell the doctor I was ready to go home but they wouldn't have any part of it. They finally got the message when I hopped on one leg around the physical therapy room for about 40 yards with no support.

Back to the original injury. I still remember the day they said I could go home, I literally walked from the hospital to my friends house on crutches (about 2 miles) and then about a mile from his house to the bowling alley to wait for my parents to get off work to drive me the 10 miles to our home. I was sore as hell the next couple of days, but no fatigue or stamina issues.

Not sure what that all means to you in your case but I was never particularly physically fit or athletic in any way, but none of my surgeries ever caused any stamina issues. The only thing that ever hit me hard that way was a severe case of food poisoning I had when I was about 36yo that left me weak as a kitten for about a week. Go figure?

As I was saying before, underlying health issues probably have a big effect with all this. I had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dysautonomia, fibromyalgia, PCOS & asthma before gallstones hit me.

It's like with my latest hospital stay - I had the flu after a week in Dublin for Worldcon. The hospital doctor outright stated that if I hadn't already had so much to deal with, the flu "would have bounced off" me.

Unfortunately, the dehydration caused by vomiting & the runs combined with my autonomic nervous system impairment(s), and that left me in & out of consciousness for at least 24 hours. Because I live alone & my care hadn't settled back into place yet after my convention trip, I had to wait til I was coherent enough to ring an ambulance. I wound up spending 36 hours in-patient on a saline & anti-emetic drip to rehydrate me & rebalance my potassium levels before I could go home.

But, and this is the real point, I would never have wound up there in the first place if I weren't already chronically ill.
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Sahuagin posted...

(actually, one thing I discovered that I definitely don't really like now are "dissolvable stitches"; maybe if I had picked at it more it wouldn't have been a problem but it actually took 10-15 years for the last of the dissolvable stitches to come out. I think it would have healed a lot faster without that stupid gunk embedded in my skin.)

You really should've picked at them more. Mine didn't all dissolve on their own, but after a few weeks I wound up spraying the shower head against the healed incision area while gently tugging at the bits of stitches that were left sticking out, & I managed to pull the remainder pretty well all out without any additional damage.
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It really does depend on your previous level of health. I have never truly regained all the ground I lost during and after my 3 weeks in hospital for emergency gall bladder surgery in 2012; I had to start using my powered wheelchair full-time outside my home after that, because 3 weeks with so much less than even my usual impaired mobility had such a weakening effect on my body and my underlying dysautonomia. But I was chronically ill even before I got the gall bladder infection & gallstones. So it'll be very different, most likely.
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LinkPizza posted...

Trialia posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Trialia posted...

streamofthesky posted...

It will be painful at first, but we need a big recession to get another crack at fixing the historic wealth and income imbalances and unfair tax laws/loopholes that SHOULD have been fixed after the last recession but were stymied.

Tax shelters need to be addressed, corporate profits need to be taxed at point of sale (no more "I sold $3 billion in goods to Americans...in Ireland...where my corporate HQ is....yeah..."), capital gains need to be taxed at the same rates as income, and extremely high income brackets with large tax rates to match need to be established.

That would be one of the major motivators for Brexit among politicians on our side of the Atlantic: the EU is due to pass legislation that would have a massive impact on the kind of rich people who do everything they can to avoid ever having to pay a penny in taxes, by reducing the ability of tax havens to launder money from other countries that are part of the EU. It's due to come into force in early 2020. See a pattern?

So, Brexit was just a populist smoke screen orchestrated by the rich in the UK so they could avoid paying taxes by mobilizing the unwitting masses into doing their bidding for them?

So...your right wing parties really are just like our Republican party....

Pretty much, minus the hyperreligious element, though the DUP seem to want to bring that back into popularity too...

Also, Link, we're wheelchair users, not "wheelchair bound", which is outdated & kind of offensive if you dig into the origins of the term. Unless actual bondage is involved. As for "the handicap" when you were talking about a person, oh hell no. If I liked you any less I'd have unloaded big time on you over that one. I know you're trying to reply to a lot at once, but FFS, dude, we're people, not impairments or objects. That's worse than the bus drivers who say on their radios that they've got "a wheelchair" on board! Do remember that we, too, are people. Even, and especially, in the context of your debate.

Not all of them. I thought I mentioned that, but maybe I didnt. Most of our wheelchair bound people are not able to get out of their seats, though. At least, they say they cant... As for saying the handicap, that was most likely a mistake. I usually say our handicap passengers. For the wheelchair on board thing, theres a rule where you have to say that. All of them have a different way of saying it based on which station you are at.

No, you misunderstand me. Nobody is "wheelchair bound", not even those of us who cannot get up unaided or are paralysed (the latter being only about 15% of wheelchair users, btw), because the term implies (among other things) continual and unceasing presence in the chair. We don't generally sleep in them, Link!

As for the other, whether there's a rule where you are or not (there isn't here), that honestly doesn't make it any less dehumanising or offensive. Actually a bit worse, tbh.
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streamofthesky posted...

Trialia posted...

streamofthesky posted...

It will be painful at first, but we need a big recession to get another crack at fixing the historic wealth and income imbalances and unfair tax laws/loopholes that SHOULD have been fixed after the last recession but were stymied.

Tax shelters need to be addressed, corporate profits need to be taxed at point of sale (no more "I sold $3 billion in goods to Americans...in Ireland...where my corporate HQ is....yeah..."), capital gains need to be taxed at the same rates as income, and extremely high income brackets with large tax rates to match need to be established.

That would be one of the major motivators for Brexit among politicians on our side of the Atlantic: the EU is due to pass legislation that would have a massive impact on the kind of rich people who do everything they can to avoid ever having to pay a penny in taxes, by reducing the ability of tax havens to launder money from other countries that are part of the EU. It's due to come into force in early 2020. See a pattern?

So, Brexit was just a populist smoke screen orchestrated by the rich in the UK so they could avoid paying taxes by mobilizing the unwitting masses into doing their bidding for them?

So...your right wing parties really are just like our Republican party....

Pretty much, minus the hyperreligious element, though the DUP seem to want to bring that back into popularity too...

Also, Link, we're wheelchair users, not "wheelchair bound", which is outdated & kind of offensive if you dig into the origins of the term. Unless actual bondage is involved. As for "the handicap" when you were talking about a person, oh hell no. If I liked you any less I'd have unloaded big time on you over that one. I know you're trying to reply to a lot at once, but FFS, dude, we're people, not impairments or objects. That's worse than the bus drivers who say on their radios that they've got "a wheelchair" on board! Do remember that we, too, are people. Even, and especially, in the context of your debate.
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LinkPizza posted...

hypnox posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Not really. I'll miss the heat. The cold is my enemy...

You can always add more layers. You can only take so much off before you get arrested and put on a list.

Not really. Eventually, the layers start getting uncomfortable. And they also stop working after a certain amount. So, then Ill be uncomfortable and cold. So, I always thought the layer argument was kind of stupid. And theres only so much I need to take off, anyway. Especially if you have a fan or AC or somethings. If you sweat, even a gentle breeze will cool you off a little.

Hah! You, maybe. Some of us aren't so lucky. The only time I get to go without my giant fan is midwinter.
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streamofthesky posted...

It will be painful at first, but we need a big recession to get another crack at fixing the historic wealth and income imbalances and unfair tax laws/loopholes that SHOULD have been fixed after the last recession but were stymied.

Tax shelters need to be addressed, corporate profits need to be taxed at point of sale (no more "I sold $3 billion in goods to Americans...in Ireland...where my corporate HQ is....yeah..."), capital gains need to be taxed at the same rates as income, and extremely high income brackets with large tax rates to match need to be established.

That would be one of the major motivators for Brexit among politicians on our side of the Atlantic: the EU is due to pass legislation that would have a massive impact on the kind of rich people who do everything they can to avoid ever having to pay a penny in taxes, by reducing the ability of tax havens to launder money from other countries that are part of the EU. It's due to come into force in early 2020. See a pattern?
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To some extent, yes. At least now I have a chance of being conscious more often - too much heat winds up causing blackouts for me, among other symptoms. Autumn is my favourite time of year, too. The downside is that winter is about as bad for me, in other ways, as summer =P
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wolfy42 posted...

Can't believe nobody replied with "Miss" yet. Seriously, you all disappoint me sometimes.

That... is not even funny.

Sense of humour transplant needed on aisle one, stat...!
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Jen0125 posted...

I'm planning on crate training the dog as a puppy so it always has its own space to go into.

Thanks for the advice. I'm ready for mess. It's a baby. Rubbing its face in its mess seems like abuse to me.

Yeah, that would be because abuse is exactly what it is. "Effective" my @ss. I spent years volunteering at an animal sanctuary, & that whole "make them think you're the alpha" rubbish is only ever any actual good on animals that are essentially feral.
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Damn! I swear I must be missing a whole bizarre offshoot sub-thread here, because the posts I can see make no sense whatsoever! I'm missing at least 10 just from this page 0_o;
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Jen0125 posted...

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Jen0125 posted...

gloBal enemy posted...

Make sure you've researched what you need to do...

My wife (then girlfriend) convinced me to get a dog and whilst I was quite unsure back then, I'm really glad we did. Changed my lifestyle a bit and I also did alot of research online to figure out what I was getting myself into, how to crate train, etc... but it worked out very well.

Yeah I need to research house breaking because I've never had a puppy on my own before and my parents did the rub their nose in it method whenever we had puppies growing up. I don't want to do that.

One tip I read and remember was that before you bring them into the house for the first time, take them outside to wherever they will use the bathroom and have them go. Then go inside afterwards... IIRC...

Yup. How we trained ours. She really expects a lot of outdoor time now.

Did it work really well to have them pee before you bring them in the house?

Maybe I'll litter train it

Omg awwwww, PUPPEH!!! *heart eyes* Def pics plz!!!

Ha. So, getting calm & mostly serious: litter training a puppy works about the same way as for a kitten - put something that smells like them in or near the tray, & spray stuff that smells good to you but unpleasant to them anywhere they go potty away from the tray indoors.
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Unknow0059 posted...

Trialia posted...

Frankly, I'm not even getting into this in any depth, because it's already clear this topic is a hot mess with no relation to the reality of how things are for anyone considered gender non-conforming. There's no point in engaging genuinely with this kind of rubbish. So the only reason I am here is to tell you, OP, as much. And if I, being non-binary, feel like that about it, I honestly doubt you'll drag many - if any - of the members of the board who have actually transitioned into this "debate".
As for the suicide rate among trans people, try checking out the murder rate first. It's a lot more revealing.
Now, it's 0730 and I have other things to do today. Good morning.

I mean, okay. I appreciate you telling me that, though I would've rather you told me what "the reality" is, since that's what I'm asking to begin with. I'll assume the thing about suicide rate refers to other people's responses. That last part makes you seem upset or tired?
It's unfortunate, it seems like you could've contributed.

Perhaps. But it is as I pointed out: this thread has already become a horrible mess. Admittedly, it was a bit nave of you to post that on GFAQs to begin with...! And on this particular forum, that was kind of inevitable for the most part. Which is why I don't want in. Anyway, try the link I gave you via PM, should be some help if you're genuinely interested.

Re. the suicide/murder thing, yes, that was an ongoing sub-thread at the time I posted. It may still be (I am missing literally half the thread thanks to having a full ignore list!). And I was both upset (annoyed, rather!) and tired...
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Yep. Severe hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome necessitates more morphine than the average palliative-care patient, in my case.

On top of that, for various other conditions that are mostly related to my hEDS in one way or another: cetirizine (allergies & hayfever), omeprazole (gastro-sophageal reflux disease), a particular branded version of naratriptan (migraine abortive, for some reason the generic has a difference in formulation that means it doesn't work for me), hyoscine hydrobromide (irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)), bisacodyl (IBS) , midodrine (dysautonomia / postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)), & 2 asthma inhalers, along with less frequent vitamin D & iron supplements for deficiencies. I practice mindfulness-based meditation therapy to help manage my mental health conditions, because most of the available meds clash with my physical issues or other meds somehow.
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Aculo posted...

lol lots of deleted posts, it seems, ok?

I can see 2 deleted posts, but there are a total of 23 posts missing from my view of this thread. Given what I expected of it to begin with & how many people I have blocked on GFAQs who would happily post transphobic crap in a thread like this, that's a few more than I had anticipated, but... not by much.
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EclairReturns posted...

I check my pockets to see if I've been robbed.

If you tripped? Even if there wasn't anyone near you?
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Frankly, I'm not even getting into this in any depth, because it's already clear this topic is a hot mess with no relation to the reality of how things are for anyone considered gender non-conforming. There's no point in engaging genuinely with this kind of rubbish. So the only reason I am here is to tell you, OP, as much. And if I, being non-binary, feel like that about it, I honestly doubt you'll drag many - if any - of the members of the board who have actually transitioned into this "debate".

As for the suicide rate among trans people, try checking out the murder rate first. It's a lot more revealing.

Now, it's 0730 and I have other things to do today. Good morning.
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Well, given my general fragility, it's usually "check injuries, reduce dislocations, find where cane or wheelchair went & whether they're still serviceable, use them to help myself get up & pull them up with me, take pain meds, then sit someplace & deal with any other injuries".

Of course, all that depends on where & how I land. I did once tumble head-over-heels into a busy road (I was very lucky nothing hit me!), and another time slipped on black ice & landed on my back right across the nearby tram rails - 5ft from a moving tram. But I'd gone down so hard, and with my laptop in my backpack between me and the concrete & metal & my cane having slid several feet away, I *couldn't* get up unaided. Again, I was lucky: tram driver yanked the emergency stop and jumped down from the cab, then he and an off-duty nurse who'd seen (it was lucky this was right in the centre of the city, near the central bus station) got either side of me, grabbed my cane, helped me to my feet and made sure I was all right. (I was in bed for a week after that one. Ouch!)
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couples-were-asked-tell-their-race-virginia-marriage-license-now-n1051071

All three couples have been denied a marriage license after declining to divulge their race, the suit says.

"Plaintiffs deem the requirement of racial labeling to be scientifically baseless, misleading, highly controversial, a matter of opinion, practically useless, offensive to human dignity, an invasion of personal privacy compelling an unwanted public categorization of oneself, and reflective of a racist past," the lawsuit states.

Virginia is one of eight states that ask couples to identify their race before they can marry, according to the lawsuit. The others include Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota. In New Hampshire a court clerk fills out the information about a couple's race. Alabama has couples fill out a certificate "that requires a statement of their race," the lawsuit says.

The plaintiffs also argued that there is no uniformity among counties over racial labels. In Arlington, where two of the couples went to obtain a license, they had to choose from: American Indian/Alaskan Native; African American/Black; Asian; Caucasian; Hispanic/Latino; Pacific Islander or Other.

In Rockbridge County, there was a list of "approved races" that included "Aryan," "Octoroon," "Quadroon" and "Mulatto," the suit states.

Jfc...

Ye gods. I don't blame them for suing over that! That's a whole lot of seriously disturbing cow-crap. Hell, that last group of terms are so outdated (& so painfully racist) I actually had to look half of them up to find out what they were supposed to mean. Wtf. *smh*

Well, for sure the folks who say the USA has never yet been out of the woods in terms of prevalence of racial discrimination are right, especially when this kind of thing is still "on the books", so to speak. That's some ugly s***.
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Bulbasaur posted...

if you aren't friends with someone on facebook, and send them a message, odds are they don't see it, because it goes into a an entirely separate messages page that's near impossible to find.

This. I fall into that trap all the time, it's a totally different inbox and you can't set it up to email or alert you when you get a new message in it or anything. It's such a nuisance.
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Why is this a topic *screams & runs away*
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GastroFan posted...

I've read a compliation of all 6 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee's last novel published before she died), but haven't gotten around to reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet (checked out a couple of pages but that's all so far). Usually I'm too busy writing books to read them (working on two novels at present) but that doesn't mean I won't attempt to read another book soon.

Fair enough! I'm glad to hear you do read, though, as I have no confidence whatsoever in writers who claim they don't read. Do you write in any specific genre(s)? I used to write a lot more original fiction than I do nowadays, but mainly stick to poetry and fanfiction now (which reminds me, I have a New Year's Resolution to write for the Yuletide challenge)...
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Jen0125 posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Jen0125 posted...

If no one gets modded for "celebrating his death" the mods are fucking racist

So far no one has been but I got modded for "celebrating" the death of that stupid asshole Koch brother

So much rage...

More irritation at double standards between talking shit about a dead black guy vs a dead white guy

It has nothing to do with his race. Go find some of the discussions on the deaths of other political dictators in the GFAQs archives, you'll see.
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Out of that lot, definitely The Wind Cries Mary. Honestly though, I prefer Little Wing. One Rainy Wish comes a close third.

I am always very tickled when Watchtower takes the crown in a Hendrix poll. Fantastic cover, but still a cover! ;D
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Cacciato posted...

GhettoFlip posted...

Trialia posted...

Before the past year or so, my annual average was nearer to 200-230. I get wearier all the time, and find less spare time to read depending on whatever other hobbies were most prevalent in that particular calendar year, but most of all it's about fatigue.

nobody believes that you finish a book every 1.5 days

Thats not really that difficult depending on his personal life.

FWIW, I actually know people who read twice as much as I do. One of whom is a full-time graduate student (Anglo-Saxon and Classics). I have no idea how they manage that.

As for "20+ includes anything above 20", yes, that was rather the point of the original post. ;) I have a lot of friends who use GoodReads to track their reading per year, quite a few of whom run the annual GR challenge, but very few of them read less than 25-30, and the mean average is something like 75. These are mostly people with jobs and/or families.

I don't imply anyone working 40+ hours a week could easily read as much as I do if they have other hobbies to keep up as well - though yes, I do count reading for study, work, or audiobooks (whether read while commuting or not). As it happens, my annual number drops as my health continues to deteriorate, and much of the time I might not be able to read at all if not for adaptive tech, but that comes along with having multiple impairments. I am no longer in a position to hold down a regular job, so I acknowledge that to some extent I may have more "free time" (depending on how you consider that) than someone working all week (although it can get a bit complicated, and I don't know whether counting the fact that I sometimes manage to read while in-patient might skew anything). That said, being single doesn't really mean I have more time than someone married with or without kids, because married people get to split chores, and I can't.

Also, before we revisit it: I'm 33, and yes, I really do read that much, between audiobooks, ebooks and print (though less of the latter than I used to, now I have days where turning pages dislocates my fingers), and I read both fiction and non-fiction. I suppose it might be more if I weren't using some of the time for chores or other hobbies (I'm a chorister, for the benefit of the person who mentioned music ;) as well as, obviously, a gamer, else why would I be here?).
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I've set myself a target to read 100 this year, regardless of length, and am at 94 as of this week, midway through David Weber's second Honor Harrington novel, The Honor of the Queen.

Before the past year or so, my annual average was nearer to 200-230. I get wearier all the time, and find less spare time to read depending on whatever other hobbies were most prevalent in that particular calendar year, but most of all it's about fatigue.

What's the usual figure on average for the rest of you? I simply can not begin to believe so few people here ever read 20 a year!
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Lil69Leo posted...

Hope he burns in hell if it exists.

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Zangulus posted...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/04/thousands-to-attend-bbq-outside-home-of-vegan-who-sued-neighbors-over-smelly-meats/

Heh. Can't think of many people more deserving, after she tried to get them into such serious trouble over their behaving no differently than any average family...
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Ewww. Yet another gross thing caused by American toilets being perpetually over-filled, ugh.
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FFS. What a miserable neighbour to have.

I'd have had some sympathy if the kids' noise gave her migraines or something... excessive high-pitched screaming has had that effect on me before, & the kids in my apartment block have a frustrating habit of bringing their stuff down to play *right outside my bedroom window* when they don't even live on my side of the block & they do know I often need to sleep during the day. But in her case, not only are the kids playing in their own back yard, but she doesn't work nights & she's reportedly not disabled or anything, so she just seems to be whinging for the sake of it.

The BBQ thing, I can see it if they have them a lot, but really, nobody barbecues stuff that often. To complain about once a week or less is going overboard. So she's vegan. So what? Why should her neighbours be expected to adjust their dietary habits for her benefit? If she isn't going to go into anaphylactic shock or hemiplegic migraine from just smelling their stuff, there's no justification for her level of complaint. It would be different if they'd been smoking & the fumes drifted into her yard - that could actively damage her health.

It seems to me that this person doesn't like being anybody's "neighbour". As others here have said, she needs to find someplace where she can live off by herself without anyone else about. Though she seems the type who'd find something to complain about even then.
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No more pain from them than from the rest, but my upper jaw was so overcrowded that the two up there didn't have any room to erupt until after other molars were removed, so they lay under the roof of my mouth at a 45 angle, very close to the surface, so that every time I had a cold or the flu, those parts of the roof of my mouth would always be really sore. I still have the upper right wisdom (one of my only remaining teeth & the sole surviving tooth on the top row at all), because it erupted after my upper-dental clearance. It doesn't give me any more trouble than any other tooth, now (though all my teeth crack & crumble thanks to dental hypoplasia, so!).
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Right now, working on backing up my four domains (& >140 websites, mercifully mostly small!) in preparation for my first hosting move in about a decade, since the friend who has sub-hosted me for years is closing her own sites and I can't afford to take over her enormous hosting package (unlimited bandwidth, subdomains, nameserver use & storage, w/ very few limits of any kind), for which she's been paying $220/month for years. Way out of my price range. Sigh. So yeah, it's been so long since I actually had to go into MySQL that I'm having to give myself a brief refresher course...
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Trialia posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

I'll probably be dead by 40.

Is that because you want to be? Or do you work in a dangerous profession, or what?

Health issues are starting to pile up, and just getting by isn't helping.

I guess that makes some sense. As I said before, I'm only 33 and already medically retired. I have a handful of lifelong chronic conditions. But if I can survive my bipolar disorder & don't make any slip-ups with my morphine, I might reach old age.
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ninja_lootz posted...

Anamanaguchi - Prom Night

Lol, that's one way to wake up! Might be a bit loud for me (if I get woken too loudly I wind up with a migraine).
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ninja_lootz posted...

Yesterday, the song I use came up randomly while I was listening to music at work and it fucked my brain up for a second.

Ha, I've had that happen with my ringtone a time or two. Very confusing for a moment!
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streamofthesky posted...

Trialia posted...

Within Temptation

Nice.

My favorite songs of theirs are It's the Fear and Forsaken

Cool. :) I love the whole The Silent Force CD - I actually played my original copy so much I had to get a new one, and with a CD that takes some doing! - but I prefer the sudden-start tracks like Faster for ringtones because I live in a city, and if I used anything quieter I might not hear it. ;)
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