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Yeah - I was lazy and just reused your descriptors. Knew if it was really irritating that you, @Wonderer67, or another spoonie would polish it up.

While I can't use "the C-word" in my family without a whole buncha noise... I personally feel that it's not a gender-driven word.

Could be the British programming I watch, too. :unsure: 😂

CW: c-word... lots and lotsa
A Montage of C**ts - After Life - Netflix
YouTube: Still Watching Netflix channel
From Wikipedia (mostly):
The original Wat Tyler was elected leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England at a meeting Maidstone, the county town of Kent where he was believed to have grown up. A road in the town centre, Wat Tyler Way, bears his name.
He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the collection of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms.
While the brief rebellion enjoyed early success, Tyler was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield, London. These officers were royalist c---s, much as Epstein's friend, the former Prince Andrew, is today.
 
My sister came over yesterday afternoon so we can deal with some legal and financial stuff regarding my mom today.

Me Mrs wonderer and my sister got hilariously drunk while I made soup. My sisters were responsible for my musical upbringing so we listened to some classic albums that she liked that helped shape my musical tastes. We also danced like idiots!!!

Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones
London Calling by The Clash
Los Angeles by X (who we saw in September)
Inflammable material by Stiff Little Fingers.

Then we listened to some random 45s (old Blues, British Invasion, British Nod revival and 70s funk)

It got me over 23k steps!
London Calling is belted out at Arsenal football (soccer) stadium to 60,000 fans before every home game!
 
From Wikipedia (mostly):
The original Wat Tyler was elected leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England at a meeting Maidstone, the county town of Kent where he was believed to have grown up. A road in the town centre, Wat Tyler Way, bears his name.
He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the collection of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms.
While the brief rebellion enjoyed early success, Tyler was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield, London. These officers were royalist c---s, much as Epstein's friend, the former Prince Andrew, is today.


I think that they burned down John of Gaunt's house while they were rousing the rabble. Good times!!! I've been a fan since I learned of the Old Boy.


Off to call it a day. Monday's are long AF in Worktown.
 
It is very moving and I am always close to tears remembering my grandfather and what he went through at Ypres. Yes feeling a lot better thanks!
A few years ago, I was at the imperial war Museum in London. And there was an exhibit from the (British) first cavalry division. A battery of artillerymen, covered the retreat at 1st Ypres. They were doomed and won the Victoria cross for it… but gave their lives…

I started to break down and cry right there. The whole museum was very emotional for me.

(It was battle of Nery, not Ypres)

 
Wow, slow day (or couple of days). Just can't get moving today. I'm thinking it's exposures to allergens and the kid brought a bug home. It seems we've been having similar symptoms. Yesterday was zero energy and long naps, today is about the same.

Trying to catch up a little, but most of the last few days of posts will be water under the bridge.
Feel better soon, brother!
 
So Wat pulled up in front of the landlady's place and hit the storm drop inlet. Fucking steel top cut piss outta the left front tire. Left a hole in the sidewall. Called the hook. AAA. He was here in 20 minutes. We were going to go to Their Tire Store which closed at 6. Then he asked, "do you know Keke's? They're open til 8 and they have new and used tires." "Where are they?" "like seven minutes away." "Do it!" The immigrants swarmed the car when it got there - well was off 90 seconds later. I tipped the driver $10. Twenty minutes later, I had paid and had a right front tire that holds air. It'll do until I replace the set anyway.


It was better than PeeWee's Big Adventure . . . .
I think that turned out well…

But I am not sure…
 
If a person wants to ask me a question ...cool
If a person wants to tell me what happened or someone "said" and they feel like the confrontation queen....they can hop in their yugo and take the road east allllll the way to fuckofistan and stay there.
This bitch said to me and my peer that since she was our advisor she wanted to learn more about our job....what she knows is nothing...
Getting fucked at work… and NOT enjoying it…

Fuckers.
 
I started to break down and cry right there. The whole museum was very emotional for me.
USS Arizona
Couldn't even set foot in the section with the wall of names
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Not sure if it's changed since I was there 25 yrs ago. Everyone arrives to get their tickets. It's a festive, touristy, vacationy mood. You wait in the gift shop, complete with snacks. Various conversations taking place, connections being made with fellow travelers.

When it's your group's turn, you are directed to a small movie theater. A short film plays narrated by Stockard Channing. It includes original footage from both the US and Japan.

By the end of this 23-minute film, you can hear a pin drop... and the quiet weeping of some in the audience.

I learned later that a few in our group were survivors traveling back to visit friends and fellow service members who died aboard the USS Arizona. A few other couples were relatives of those who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The mood has shifted. We are reminded that this is a Memorial and a grave. We are to conduct ourselves accordingly; and we do.

We exit out the opposite side of the theater directly onto the gangway for the ferry. It's a short, quiet ride across to the memorial which floats above the USS Arizona.

I don't recall anyone speaking above a whisper the entire time aboard.

At the Tears of the Arizona, leis are cut and the flowers scattered* as one might drop a rose onto a casket. I am mesmerized watching both air bubbles and drops of oil make their way from the depths up to the surface.

(*Keep the string and dispose properly so it doesn't harm the sea life.)

At the far end of the Memorial sits the Shrine; a marble wall with the names of those killed aboard the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Off to the side is a plaque with the names of the few who survived.

By the time I made it to this beautiful remembrance, I was overwhelmed.

It was one of the most moving experiences so far in my life... and not one that I will soon forget.
 
Yeah - I was lazy and just reused your descriptors. Knew if it was really irritating that you, @Wonderer67, or another spoonie would polish it up.

While I can't use "the C-word" in my family without a whole buncha noise... I personally feel that it's not a gender-driven word.

Could be the British programming I watch, too. :unsure: 😂

CW: c-word... lots and lotsa
A Montage of C**ts - After Life - Netflix
YouTube: Still Watching Netflix channel
It is such a perfect swear word, short, blunt vowel, hard consonants. It should retain its status as the ultimate genderless insult but lose its association with female genitalia.
 
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