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Indeed it is, mildly amused at some infighting among a certain political group of a similar persuasion in France, look it up can't say more.
Power and money make siblings and relatives kill each others. Not surprising that it happens in party politics.
That's better than cow tipping.Had to Google that one.
I'm glad for your positive accomplishments and sad for the trouble you've had.
Every week, I see someone around your age who can't speak or can't walk or something really devastating. I've also seen people in their 50s who need their mother to take care of them.
Keep your chin up! You'll manage to succeed!
I don’t really see that as “devastating.” More just that someone was born with a disability. You just gotta make the most you can out of your life, and think positively. I try to do both those things—sometimes it works, sometimes not. It sucks, but it’s okay!
Also, I think the reason why I struggle a bit is because I know am not "normal." When I was younger, I thought all the stuff I had to do--occupational therapy, speech therapy, being in special education to name a few examples--was a "normal" thing, because I didn't know any different. Now that I do, it makes it slightly harder. I don't need those specific things anymore, but that's not my point. The fact that that had to happen, and the fact that I will never be what society considers "normal" is hard.
There was a time (when I was younger) when I was afraid to have people over to the house, because they'd see all this medical equipment, and I worried they'd think worse of me. I never did have anyone over, so idk what would've happened. That doesn't worry me now, because I expect people to behave like grown-ups.
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Well, yeah..."...behave like grown-ups"?
uh-oh.....
Unfortunately, I've had people in their 60s and 70s (for Christ's sake!) make some very distasteful comments in this regard. I get you wanna know, but you don't NEED to.
Anyway, on a different subject, I now have as many hard drives as I can possibly put in this HP workstation. I bought it because I had all these spare SAS drives I needed to put to use. I got a RAID controller card along with it, so I'm running two 3 TB drives in RAID0 and two 2 TB drives in RAID1. It actually works very well! Configuring it was a PAIN though! It took me like 2 hours last night.
Isn't that what non-grown-ups think/say."...behave like grown-ups"?
uh-oh.....
When we are grown up enough, we don't give a fk, we do as we please.
Now that I'm almost 65, I tend to be parental with the children of parents who aren't parenting in the store. They can give me all the dirty looks they want, but if their child is hurt climbing out of the cart while they're on the phone, they'll blame the store, not themselves.
Personal responsibility in the U.S.A. seems to be a thing of the past.
I'm not about to deal with bigots quietly, either.
I certainly agree with you, except that I don't take any extensive responsibility for other people, and whatever lack of ethics and common sense some seem to have.
I just try to navigate myself as far away from those types as I can. In a similar way I avoid crowds when I'm shopping or something like that.
I love the long, lingering evenings (and twilight) of this time of year.
Same! Glad it doesn't get dark at like 3:30 anymore.
It's also really nice to be able to just chill on the sofa, rather than sitting at my desk all the time. Really, if it weren't so hot, I'd be outside on our back covered porch area, but it's a bit too hot to do that.
I agree. And I haven't even been alive that long, but I've seen a decline in the past decade for sure. More people on their phones being really ignorant.
My second customer today was complaining about going to a certain store because of all the immigrants. I said "I'm an immigrant!" but I didn't mention that her ancestors were immigrants. She went "No, no. I don't mean you. I mean those people." I asked "Who?" and she told me that she was talking about Indian people, using the word "Turban". I said "I'm Japanese. I'm not that far from there."
We're all supposed to be getting along. It's one planet. We're more alike than different. 😟
We're all supposed to be getting along. It's one planet. We're more alike than different. 😟
Headed (late enough) into the city to collect some fresh bread from the French bakery (a baguette, and a sourdough loaf), buy some cheese (detailed in the cheese thread), some cold cuts (Milano salami, bresaola, and several slices of Parma ham, sliced paper thin), purchase some local honey, and collect my organic milk and some organic double cream.
My week-end edition of the FT was delivered this morning, and I am now sipping, savouring, and enjoying a late afternoon, early evening coffee.
My week-end edition of the FT was delivered this morning, and I am now sipping, savouring, and enjoying a late afternoon, early evening coffee.
Some tourists, visiting Wales, went into a coffee shop.
A couple was seated there, speaking Welsh. In Wales.
Tourist piped up and said "We don't speak foreign here."
A couple was seated there, speaking Welsh. In Wales.
Tourist piped up and said "We don't speak foreign here."
Ouch.
Wince.
What can one say......
Idiocy, ill-manners (and a profound and lamentable lack of knowledge) are no excuse for such cretinous behaviour.
On top of that, who gives a crap about what language a group of other people speak among themselves. I am all for learning the language of the place people immigrate to, but I still speak Italian to my wife and my kids.