What's on your Won't Do list?

[graceanne]

LOL! Yes, he bought me a GPS and I never go anywhere without it. He says one day he's afraid he'll come home and I'm circling the tree in the front yard, crying and muttering that I can't find my house.

He has maps in his head and always knows where he is and is never lost. Magic. When I first moved here he'd draw me these incredibly detailed maps with railroad crossings, stop lights (he'd color them in red, orange and green) and street names, from memory. Proportions were always perfect and I had about 100 of them in the glove compartment.

K gets so frustrated with me. Today he and his brother were joking about getting drunk, and finding themselves somewhere, and not sure where. I was like 'yeah, I do that sober'. I've lost track of the times I've called K and said 'um, I'm on the corner of this and that. How did I get here, and how to get OUT of here?' and he's always like 'YOU'RE WHERE!?!'

In the meantime I watch "Mystery Diagnosis" and it's cathartic. HAH! See? People ALL OVER THE WORLD get told it's in their head, it's a cold, it's stress, you need to relax, you need to eat better, you need to exercise...when it's a fucking deadly genetic condition affecting 0.0002% of the population or some such.

There are good doctors. But as to "What I won't Do" in a life medically to anybody - it's what doctors do to me constantly. Evaluate me, disbelieve me, treat me like cattle, and take the complicated circumstances of my life and write a prescription for the lowest common denominator.

When I first got sick was shortly after my oldest child was born. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what. My doctor kept saying it was post partum depression. Then I started bleeding, and that doctor told me that it was in my head. (I fired her.) Then I had my second child, and by then I was filling the toilet up with blood at least once a day, and that doctor said it was in my head. Then I stopped being able to keep anything down, and I lost fifty pounds in a month, and that was the flu. It wasn't til I lost so much blood that I had to be hospitalized and given three units of blood that they took me seriously. Of course, now if anything happens it's blamed on the Crohns disease.

Believe me when I say I hear you regarding no one believing you.

I can't visualize either. My mom and I jokingly call it a "phonographic memory" because I recall things aurally. I never had to study in school, as long as the lesson was spoken out loud. If I hear something once, I can recall the sound in my head with in 1/4 of a note accuracy. When the lesson wasn't spoken in class I had to go home and read everything out loud, or I wouldn't remember. When I was in American history, the only chapter I got above a C on was the chapter my mother read to me. (I have a bit of dislexia as well so reading was more work than I thought worth better than a C)

When I recall things from my childhood, I don't see them, I hear the details of what went on, down to what colors the clothing was. Everything is sort of like hearing a radio program go on in my head.

The whole visualize and fantasize thing really illudes me. *shrug*

Yeah, I can't remember what people are wearing, or whatever, but I can remember conversations until the end of time. lol

 

[YourCaptor]

Here's a partial answer to your question, YC...






There's nothing wrong with seafood, I love seafood. There is, however, lots wrong with the way seafood is harvested.

Ahso, thank you, sorry I didn't look though everything.

It think I would still be pro fish farming, or at least developing it into producing a quality product. Few animals lend themselves better to farming then fish.

But then again we already got a huge ass fish farm if we would just stop dumping shit into it. I once read that back when Columbus showed up in the Americas, you could just reach into the water and grab a fish, they were so numerous.

 

[JMohegan]

*gives up on paging through posts*

Oh for heaven's sake, woman! Are you unaware of the "search this thread" function"?

Try 488.

494 is less revealing, but damn - I love the expression.

 

[LilyBart]

Ahso, thank you, sorry I didn't look though everything.

It think I would still be pro fish farming, or at least developing it into producing a quality product. Few animals lend themselves better to farming then fish.

But then again we already got a huge ass fish farm if we would just stop dumping shit into it. I once read that back when Columbus showed up in the Americas, you could just reach into the water and grab a fish, they were so numerous.

If you ever get a chance, read the book Cod, by Mark Kurlansky. I found it to be a major interesting read on fish. And it changed my mind in many ways.

Note: It is not an anti-fish book. Just a really good history of fishing and some results.

~LB
(who still loves her Halibut)

 

[Homburg]

For the life of me, I don't get the proprietary feeling people have about the word marriage, at least from a legal perspective.

That's because you're both reasonable and basically rational.

For a long time I just couldn't talk to anyone who voted for Bush the second time or didn't vote in that election. It was just too upsetting. And I mean that. Some time has passed now and I'm happy with the current President. It's easier to be a bit more magnaminous.

Hell, you were grumpy with me for a while, and I both voted, and did not vote for Bush.

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More ethically sound? Ever so slightly, yes. I don't think the Dems are angels. I just think the writing was on the wall long before Bush's approval ratings sank. Where was everybody?

A year and a half ago, I say something very similar and get hemmed up for it. ZRT gets this.

I see how you are.

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All I'm saying is that, for example, a right wing woman, who thinks that Sarah Palin is the greatest thing to happen to American politics since Ronald Reagan, is not a woman with whom I could be compatible in a committed relationship.

It made me wince to see Reagan and Palin in the same sentence, because it reminded me that they're both in the same party.

 

[00Syd]

Oh for heaven's sake, woman! Are you unaware of the "search this thread" function"?

Try 488.

494 is less revealing, but damn - I love the expression.

Oooooooooohhhhhh

 

[satindesire]

Oh, here's something.

If I'm talking to someone and I see something in their teeth, or see that she's got smeared makeup, I refuse to ignore it. I'll point it out to them (gently) because I absolutely hate it when no one says anything to me if I've got something in MY teeth or if my eyeliner's creeping.

I also won't ignore it if someone's tags are sticking out. Even if they're just a stranger. That's so embarrassing to me, so I think other people appreciate it.

 

[Harmony_1985]

Oh, here's something.

If I'm talking to someone and I see something in their teeth, or see that she's got smeared makeup, I refuse to ignore it. I'll point it out to them (gently) because I absolutely hate it when no one says anything to me if I've got something in MY teeth or if my eyeliner's creeping.

I also won't ignore it if someone's tags are sticking out. Even if they're just a stranger. That's so embarrassing to me, so I think other people appreciate it.

Same here. I know I hate looking stupid in public, so I won't let anyone else look stupid in public.

 

[intothewoods]

A year and a half ago, I say something very similar and get hemmed up for it. ZRT gets this.

LMAO. Well, I think I've always said that there is plenty to criticize the Democrats on. I think the parties were different then and are more different than ever today. In response to the way he phrased it, I don't think deep down the core soul of many democratic politicians is not so different from the core soul of many republican pols. The Dems who spoke up early and loudly against the war - they stood up where others did not.

 

[intothewoods]

Oh for heaven's sake, woman! Are you unaware of the "search this thread" function"?

Try 488.

494 is less revealing, but damn - I love the expression.

I forgot about the search this thread function. Tough crowd!

I have seen 494, which is awesome, but not 488! Hawt. Thank you!

 

[Recidiva]

Just got myself Daniel Dennett's book and a cookbook by Camilla Saulsbury. Happy Mother's Day to me!

 

[Shankara20]

If you ever get a chance, read the book Cod, by Mark Kurlansky. I found it to be a major interesting read on fish. And it changed my mind in many ways.

Note: It is not an anti-fish book. Just a really good history of fishing and some results.

~LB
(who still loves her Halibut)

it is a good book - as is the book Salt

 

[Netzach]

Nice. You people have nothing to do. And now no one even cares about the MN senate race.

 

[midwestyankee]

Nice. You people have nothing to do. And now no one even cares about the MN senate race.

I thought this was essentially over a couple weeks ago. What happened? And do we need to call the Hillary thread back to duty?

 

[Recidiva]

Nice. You people have nothing to do. And now no one even cares about the MN senate race.

I've got a million things to do. I'm just...not doing them at this moment.

At this moment I'm watching "Bizarre Foods" playing "Dark Age of Camelot" and collecting a salary for a low-work day.

And to be fair, I never cared about the MN senate race.

 

[Netzach]

I thought this was essentially over a couple weeks ago. What happened? And do we need to call the Hillary thread back to duty?

MN supreme court court date = June 1.

I will lose this bet, but it's still. Not. Over.

 

[midwestyankee]

MN supreme court court date = June 1.

I will lose this bet, but it's still. Not. Over.

I have a bad feeling about this. [/Star Wars voices]

 

[JMohegan]

Nice. You people have nothing to do. And now no one even cares about the MN senate race.

*chuckling*

You could always up the ante.

 

[graceanne]

Nice. You people have nothing to do. And now no one even cares about the MN senate race.

I have lots to do. I'm procrastinating.

 

[Keroin]

I will lose this bet, but it's still. Not. Over.

Totally unrelated to all of this. Netz, I know you are WD but could you also be Chuck? Seriously, I made a joke using the phrase, "out of their league" and he went all Marxist on my ass this morning.

Actual quote:

"So, my little disobedient one, I guess I just want to say that while people may believe in their own inner superiority, objectively, there is no foundation for this kind of thought. I think we have been motivated to invent the phrase "they are out of my league" to express our own insecurities."

Yeesh. Penguins, so class-sensitive.

I feel so elitist.

I have to go make the servants polish my tiara for awhile.

p.s. I don't know a darn thing about the MN senate race. Is it important?

 

[JMohegan]

p.s. I don't know a darn thing about the MN senate race. Is it important?

The abbreviated version goes like this.

People voted last November, the results in MN were extremely close, and they've been counting and recounting ballots and fighting over the numbers ever since.

There are 100 U.S. Senators, and a simple majority is necessary to pass most bills. However, 60 votes are often necessary to prevent a procedural filibuster and achieve cloture.

There are currently 59 Democrats and 40 Republicans in the Senate. One (MN) unresolved.

A quick glance at the math highlights the issue, although an important caveat is the fact that Democrats do not always vote in lockstep.

 

[ZRT]

When did I say I wouldn't associate with people?

All I'm saying is that, for example, a right wing woman, who thinks that Sarah Palin is the greatest thing to happen to American politics since Ronald Reagan, is not a woman with whom I could be compatible in a committed relationship.

There's no set of t&a on earth that could overcome the negative effect of that perspective on a guy like me.

Would I fuck her? Maybe. Would I want to wake up in the morning with her? Hell fucking no.

There are many flavors of conservative, and not all of them are super-big fans of Sarah Palin.

But we've been arguing around each other. I've been talking about associations and even friendships, you're talking romantic relationships. Probably my fault for missing your original point.

I don't subscribe to this defeatist, there's no hope and they're all criminal scumbags, attitude.

Of course, politicians are power hungry and fundamentally keen on protecting themselves. That's a given. Nobody's a saint, clearly, and no one's a miracle worker.

But there are clear policy differences, especially now, and clear distinctions in terms of character. And if you think elections don't matter, at the very least please consider the implications of the retirement of David Souter.

The first hope and change presidential election was Thomas Jefferson in the famous 'Aaron Burr locks it up' election. Eventually Jefferson tried to castrate the Supreme Court in its womb, among other politically expedient actions.

In seven years, if not in three, one or more candidates is going to tell us about how they're going to clean up Washington culture and change things, how they're here for us, blah blah blah.

Then they'll get there and essentially continue with what's already in place. The court appointments are literally about the only thing that will change, but I don't particularly trust the left side of the equation to protect fundamental rights either. Take the much-maligned Patriot Act. When a prototype version was introduced back in the nineties in the form of the Anti-Terrorism bill, it was reviled by Republicans and supported by Democrats. The difference? Democratic president.

But mostly what I'm railing against is the fact that the parties profit by encouraging these deep rifts in the fabric of our society. They aren't thinking long term, because they live in a two year election cycle. A motivated base and demonization of the enemy is crucial to winning the biannual battle, so they continually stir a frenzy of loathing among us. I hate that, because at a core level, we are fucking Americans. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not Yankees and Southerners and Westerners. I resent the holy fucking hell out of how they profit by our polarization, and the cynicism that leads them to encourage it.

A year and a half ago, I say something very similar and get hemmed up for it. ZRT gets this.

I see how you are.

She probably thinks a fossil like you is too set in your ways to have any prospects for improvement, where as a young, virile mind like myself can perhaps be swayed to the path of light.

 

[JMohegan]

There are many flavors of conservative, and not all of them are super-big fans of Sarah Palin.

But we've been arguing around each other. I've been talking about associations and even friendships, you're talking romantic relationships. Probably my fault for missing your original point.

No problem. It's a lot harder to avoid confusion, when a bunch of people are talking at once, than it would be one-on-one.

Some of my closest friends ID as fiscal conservatives. I'm well aware of the "flavors."

 

[Keroin]

The abbreviated version goes like this.

People voted last November, the results in MN were extremely close, and they've been counting and recounting ballots and fighting over the numbers ever since.

There are 100 U.S. Senators, and a simple majority is necessary to pass most bills. However, 60 votes are often necessary to prevent a procedural filibuster and achieve cloture.

There are currently 59 Democrats and 40 Republicans in the Senate. One (MN) unresolved.

A quick glance at the math highlights the issue, although an important caveat is the fact that Democrats do not always vote in lockstep.

Oh dear. Not good. They're having a similar problem in Canada right now. The right and left are in a stalemate, mathematically, and not much can get passed because of it. Progress in my country has moved from the traditional "slow" to downright "inert".

Oh well, could be worse. Things actually move backwards on this island, it's so slow. When I arrived I was 38, when I leave I'll be 36.

 

[Homburg]

She probably thinks a fossil like you is too set in your ways to have any prospects for improvement, where as a young, virile mind like myself can perhaps be swayed to the path of light.

I... You...

*glares*