Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

For no good reason, National Lampoon flashed in my head

The most layered joke in this is that, in very bygone days, the Harvard Lampoon was edited by William Randolph Hearst.

 

[EmilyMiller]

A question without an answer. Does simply sitting at a European coffee house make a woman more attractive?

I’m not sure. Having visited Tuscany and Rome when studying in the UK, I’m not sure I was that alluring hungover and disheveled while main-lining espressos.

However, when I’ve been to Paris, later in life, it’s been much more sophisticated, with both me and my bf hungover, disheveled and main-lining les cafés.

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m not sure. Having visited Tuscany and Rome when studying in the UK, I’m not sure I was that alluring hungover and disheveled while main-lining espressos.

However, when I’ve been to Paris, later in life, it’s been much more sophisticated, with both me and my bf hungover, disheveled and main-lining les cafés.

Emily

It is possible I drink at little too much sometimes.

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

It is possible I drink at little too much sometimes.

Emily

I'm recovering from the wine pairing I had with last night's 20-course gastronomic tasting menu.

The three cocktails I'd had in the afternoon were probably out of my system before I started.

 

[Bamagan]

Sunday again?

 

[StillStunned]

Sunday again?

Brings back memories of this morning...

 

[Bamagan]

Brings back memories of this morning...

Ah, yes. This morning. I remember it like it was yesterday...

 

[AG31]

Here's a positivity! This week hubby (88) and I (80 in May) got caught in the great northeastern snow storm. We were without electricity. Fortunately had a wood stove. Our car was buried in snow, not to mention being caught behind the snow the plows had piled up. After about a half hour of shoveling, with very little progress, a couple of utility workers pulled up in their truck. They asked if we needed help. Of course we said we did. In no time at all they had us shoveled out! They were from out of state. We're so glad to have met them!!!!!

 

[StillStunned]

Here's a positivity! This week hubby (88) and I (80 in May) got caught in the great northeastern snow storm. We were without electricity. Fortunately had a wood stove. Our car was buried in snow, not to mention being caught behind the snow the plows had piled up. After about a half hour of shoveling, with very little progress, a couple of utility workers pulled up in their truck. They asked if we needed help. Of course we said we did. In no time at all they had us shoveled out! They were from out of state. We're so glad to have met them!!!!!

For all the crap that's going on in the world, I still believe that on an individual level people are basically decent and helpful.

Other people, that is. Not me.

 

[EmilyMiller]

For all the crap that's going on in the world, I still believe that on an individual level people are basically decent and helpful.

A lot of people are. I fervently hope it’s a majority.

 

[StillStunned]

A lot of people are. I fervently hope it’s a majority.

The more people you put together, the less humanity there is to go around.

 

[SimonDoom]

For all the crap that's going on in the world, I still believe that on an individual level people are basically decent and helpful.

Other people, that is. Not me.

The way I look at it, some people are really good, some people are really bad, and most people are a mixed bag. But there's enough cumulative goodness out there to keep us inching forward.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’ve been a really good girl, so hopefully @AH_Mod will allow me just one of these…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1777325982224892359

 

[StillStunned]

I’ve been a really good girl, so hopefully @AH_Mod will allow me just one of these…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1777325982224892359

If you look carefully, there's an eclipse in that picture.

 

[MrPixel]

If you look carefully, there's an eclipse in that picture.

Which is very cool. Thanks, Em!

 

[StillStunned]

It's quiet here today. Have our American cousins all been eaten up by the monster that devoured the sun? Or have they sacrificed each other to placate it and ensure the sun's return?

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's quiet here today. Have our American cousins all been eaten up by the monster that devoured the sun? Or have they sacrificed each other to placate it and ensure the sun's return?

Out looking at the eclipse right now. It’s pretty fucking cool.

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

Out looking at the eclipse right now. It’s pretty fucking cool.

Emily

Have fun. I'm not jealous at all, noooo.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Have fun. I'm not jealous at all, noooo.

My bf has two cameras on tripods. He’s such a pro

 

[EmilyMiller]

Have fun. I'm not jealous at all, noooo.

Tried putting my glasses over my phone camera, but it can’t focus and I just get a dazzling light. Bf can see sunspots

 

[intim8]

It's quiet here today. Have our American cousins all been eaten up by the monster that devoured the sun? Or have they sacrificed each other to placate it and ensure the sun's return?

You haven't heard? It's a giant orgy out here. Clear across the country. Reports are coming in from all corners of people getting it on in the middle of the road, in fields, in parks, in office buildings. Nobody can explain it. This might be the end of the world as we know it...

 

[EmilyMiller]

About half obscured. Looks like a crescent moon.

 

[EmilyMiller]

e the end of the world as we know it...

And I feel fine

 

[Bamagan]

It was so cloudy where I am that I mostly didn't need the glasses. I'm outside the path of totality, but I got intermittent glimpses of a crescent sun through the sky vapors.

 

[StillStunned]

Tried putting my glasses over my phone camera, but it can’t focus and I just get a dazzling light. Bf can see sunspots

Where I'm on holiday, the sky has been full of Sahara sand for the past few days. This morning I could look straight at the sun, like through smoked glass.

You haven't heard? It's a giant orgy out here. Clear across the country. Reports are coming in from all corners of people getting it on in the middle of the road, in fields, in parks, in office buildings. Nobody can explain it. This might be the end of the world as we know it...

Well, you might as well have fun then...