General Forum-Chat About Anything

[quddusaliquddus]

The name says it all!

 

[recon]

Um, this is confusing. A General Forum within a General forum.

 

[Evo]

Many times I've wanted to ask a question, but didn't feel it warranted starting it's own thread.

For example - I am not a morning person. I hate getting up early. Society frowns on people that don't get up at the crack of dawn feeling peppy & perky. If you like to sleep late, you are considered lazy.

If I have to get up early in order to get to the office by 8am, I am worthless the rest of the day. I usually don't drag myself in until after 11am, and even that's an effort. I like working at night, I can think much more clearly then. Luckily I have a job where I can get away with this.

Any other morning haters out there? How do you deal with the rest of the world being on an early schedule?

 

[wolram]

i have to be up at 5 sun, mon , tues, wed, i finish work at 12 weds, so i have
3.5 days of, it sounds good but i still wake about 5 on my days of, and I'm out
of sync with my family and Friends, what do i do with all my spare time? waste it usually, thinking about all the things i could be doing but dont, i used to fly light aircraft as a hobby but it became to expensive, i used to go metal detecting but i can't find any new sites, i used to go clay pigeon shooting but UK arms laws made me uncomfortable owning a gun, what next? maybe take up morris dancing or maybe not.

 

[Evo]

i have to be up at 5 sun, mon , tues, wed, i finish work at 12 weds, so i have
3.5 days of, it sounds good but i still wake about 5 on my days of, and I'm out
of sync with my family and Friends, what do i do with all my spare time? waste it usually, thinking about all the things i could be doing but dont, i used to fly light aircraft as a hobby but it became to expensive, i used to go metal detecting but i can't find any new sites, i used to go clay pigeon shooting but UK arms laws made me uncomfortable owning a gun, what next? maybe take up morris dancing or maybe not.

5AM? WHY? That is just WRONG.

If you take up Morris dancing, will you post your picture with bells on your knees here on PF?

I need to get a metal detector. My dog (aka JOWLS OF DEATH) ate part of a coin collection and a very rare coin is missing now. I am hoping it is in the backyard somewhere and wasn't accidently swept up and thrown away.

 

[jimmy p]

...rhubarb?

 

[wolram]

5AM? WHY? That is just WRONG.
crazy isn't it, but i maintain machines at a fresh food factory
and the first delivery is wagon calls at 9, your dog ate a rare
coin how much was it worth? picture me in morris gear, shudder
the thought, i do need a new hobby though

 

[quddusaliquddus]

General forumchat (about anything)

Um, this is confusing. A General Forum within a General forum.

Hmmm ... You'd be surprised how specific the General Forum in general :D

I had a feeling that might cause confusion : I meant 'forum-chat' as a single word.

 

[jimmy p]

so...what shall we chat about??

 

[Evo]

5AM? WHY? That is just WRONG.
crazy isn't it, but i maintain machines at a fresh food factory
and the first delivery is wagon calls at 9, your dog ate a rare
coin how much was it worth? picture me in morris gear, shudder
the thought, i do need a new hobby though

It's a 1909 s VDB US penny, worth from $600-$800. It was a gift to me from my mother when I was 5. I collected coins, stamps, rocks (I had a great collection thanks to my dad giving me a unique ore sample collection, I always had the best show & tell at school). I had a butterfly collection, feather collection.

When I was little I had a microscope and I would make my own slides, I would sketch what I saw, kept it all in my little journal. I kept begging my mom for one of those big chemistry sets but she was afraid I would blow up the house. So I would do my own experiments with things I would find around the house.

I also studied ancient history & archaeology as a child, and of course I had my telescope.

I didn't play much with other children.

I'm interested in what kind of hobbies/interests other PF members enjoyed as a child? Do you still spend time on them?

 

[Michael2003]

I hate having to get up early. When I have to get up I normally have a short burst where I can think straight, then I feel sleepy again and want to go to sleep, but by then I can't. It isn't unusual for me to have entire conversations with people at about 8:00 when they are leaving (and I'm still in bed), but for me to fall asleep again afterwards and not remember it because I don't like getting up unless I just wake up naturally. Working late at night is easy. There's no distractions, so you can work well and by that time my brain has woken up properly.

As a kdi I was very boring. Had very few hobbies. When I was very little I used to play chess a lot, but then I changed school and I had no-one to play against, so I gave that up for quite some time. Been meaning to get back into that sometime though. I collected stamps for quite some time and got really interested in that and coins, but that also stopped. I did enjoy video games, and still play those a lot. Interest occasionally fades though, but always comes back with that. Can't say socialising ever interested me though. Never found anyone who I could put up with outside of school, and ever just at school I couldn't stand being near a lot of them anymore than the minimum possible.

 

[Kerrie]

i am somewhat of a morning person, as long as i don't have to go to work :) on weekend mornings when i don't have to work, i usually like playing on the computer or i will grab a coffee on the east side of portland and read the paper (portland is full of coffee shops :D )

 

[Chrono]

Any other morning haters out there? How do you deal with the rest of the world being on an early schedule?

I couldn't have read this at a better time. I have to be at work at 7:00 tomorrow morning. That's probably not as bad as some people have it, but it's hard for me. I do want to be a morning person. Just a couple of years ago, during the summer, I would get up at 7:00 or 7:30, just to get up. Actually, it meant that I would have more time during the day to do what I want. Now, that I'm working about five days a week, I'd rather sleep until at least 10:30.

 

[cookiemonster]

I despise mornings... And by "morning" I mean between 5am and 1pm.

On weekends I usually wake up around 2...

cookiemonster

 

[Evo]

I despise mornings... And by "morning" I mean between 5am and 1pm.

On weekends I usually wake up around 2...

cookiemonster

My kinda guy.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I didn't exactly have a butterfly collection. I had my own flock of live butterflies.

I went out and collected the beautiful green caterpillars of the monarch butterfly that were all over the milkweed plants in the brush near my house. I put them in an old suitcase with milkweed leaves, and gave them fresh leaves everyday. Pretty soon they started making their chrysalises on the inside of the lid of the suitcase. These were also a beautiful green at first.

Later, they would start to become transparent and you could see the red wings developing underneath.

I checked them a lot and many times got to see the butterflies crawl out of the chrysalis with their wings all scrunched up and wrinkled. They hung upside down and let gravity smooth them out. (I guess they pump fluid into the "veins" as well). Then I put them into a large birdcage. I fed them with a little dish of sugar water. For some reason they hardly ever thought to crawl out between the bars and escape, although they would fit through them pretty easily with their wings back.

I had 20 or 30 of them. My parents made me let them go, because they had to migrate to Mexico where all the Monarch butterflies migrate every year to gather in one village there. There was an article about it in the National Geographic.

 

[Evo]

I didn't exactly have a butterfly collection. I had my own flock of live butterflies.

Wow, that is so cool.

 

[Andy]

I hate mornings aswell, mainly because all of my friends are either at UNI or college so never have to get up early, where as i have to be up at 6:30 every morning. Its also a real pain in the ass, not being able to go out on the piss during the week, well i could but i hate working hungover, is abit stupid as well seeing as i spend a lot of time driving whilst I am at work.

 

[jimmy p]

lol, even when i start full time work Andy, I'll have to get up at the leisurely time of 7.30... or 8 if i push it.

 

[enigma]

I'd be perfectly happy not having to wake up before noon ever again...

I also do my best work between 2 and 4am.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Jimmy P: Is it Mother's Day today in England, too? Or do they celebrate it on a different day?

I was wondering if you had wished Evo a happy mother's day today!

 

[Chrono]

I'd be perfectly happy not having to wake up before noon ever again...

I also do my best work between 2 and 4am.

I hear you on that. I do my best work between 9pm and 1am. I try not to stay up after 2.

 

[jimmy p]

Mother's day was a over a month ago in England!


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY PF MOM!

 

[Evo]

Mother's day was a over a month ago in England!


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY PF MOM!

You are the best virtual son in the world!

Thank you Chopnik!

 

[wolram]

is this a thread for vampires? why work so late? if you
get up early like me you get to see all the wild life,
as the roads are so quiet, and in the summer you
have lots of daylight left to enjoy after work.

 

[ShawnD]

Any other morning haters out there? How do you deal with the rest of the world being on an early schedule?

The key is to get to bed early. Alcohol really helps when you have to wake up for some really important the next morning.

Haven't you ever wondered why "alcohol" if the first non-medicinal ingredient listed on Nyquil? http://www.vicks.com/products/nyquil_liquid.shtml . Here are the ingredients for the two different formulas.

Inactive Ingredients:

[original] alcohol, citric acid, D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Yellow No. 6, flavor, high fructose corn syrup, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, saccharin sodium, sodium citrate

[cherry] alcohol, citric acid, FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Red No. 40, flavor, high fructose corn syrup, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, saccharin sodium, sodium citrate.

I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but glycol is a form of alcohol as well. Do glycols act the same way normal alcohols do?

 

[Evo]

The key is to get to bed early. Alcohol really helps when you have to wake up for some really important the next morning.

It really doesn't matter how early I go to bed. It takes several hours for me to feel like doing anything after I wake up. I'm not one of those people that bounces out of bed all peppy & perky.

Drinking alcohol the night before is a very bad idea. You'll realize this when you get older, alcohol will affect you differently in a few years.

 

[Tsu]

Mother's day was a over a month ago in England!


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY PF MOM!

All I got for Mother's Day was Zoobie drool on my sleeve.
(Oh! No! Wait! Bun brought me a dead mouse! Then she ate it out on the grass - which was better than the porch, I guess...)

 

[Chrono]

The key is to get to bed early.

That does me no good. Even if I do go to bed early it still takes me quite a while to go to sleep. At least thirty minutes to, sometimes, two hours.

 

[motai]

Being a teenager I tend to sleep more than people outside of my age bracket. I need 9 hours (8 hours just doesn't cut it for me super drowsy) of sleep to function coherently. On weekends I make up for lost sleep by going for 10 hours.

I must be doing something right, otherwise id be sleeping in my classes.

 

[Evo]

All I got for Mother's Day was Zoobie drool on my sleeve.
(Oh! No! Wait! Bun brought me a dead mouse! Then she ate it out on the grass - which was better than the porch, I guess...)

Now that is true love. My cat vomits in my shoes.

 

[rathma]

Now that is true love. My cat vomits in my shoes.

You've explained this phenomenon before...when you were complaining about being unloved in I don't know which thread...
It's okay Evo. My turtles attempt suicide whenever I come near.









Chaos. Disorder. Widespread panic. My work is done here.

 

[Evo]

My cat vomits alot. My favorite was the time she did it on my pillow.

Suicidal turtles?

 

[Janitor]

I'm interested in what kind of hobbies/interests other PF members enjoyed as a child? Do you still spend time on them?

I spent many more hours watching sports on television in my teens than I do these days. (Okay, I have the Sacramento-Minnesota basketball game on the tube right now. Overtime in progress.) This is despite the fact that in those dark ages there were way fewer sports offerings than there are now. My parents were tight with a buck, and we were the last family on the block to upgrade from black & white to color TV, by the way. I'll get over that fact any year now.

I went through a couple of years of building rockets and rocket cars, around seventh and eighth grade. I still have some 8 mm film in the closet, showing the rocket cars zooming across some outdoor basketball courts.

I built this one rocket that had three rocket motors in one stage. On the first launch one of them ignited, but not the other two. Because of the asymmetric thrust, the thing flew an arc trajectory and hit the ground before the parachute came out. That meant the first launch was the last launch for that particular rocket.

The rocketry mail-order catalogue offered a small camera for use in a rocket. I really coveted that thing, but I didn't have the money to spend on it.

 

[Tsu]

My cat vomits alot. My favorite was the time she did it on my pillow.

I keep tellin' ya... Hartz Hairball Remedy. Our cats hardly EVER throw up anymore. (It's great not having to clean up cat puke.)

 

[Evo]

I keep tellin' ya... Hartz Hairball Remedy. Our cats hardly EVER throw up anymore. (It's great not having to clean up cat puke.)

Unfortunately this isn't hairballs. My psycho cat Moose is afraid of the other cats, so if there are other cats around she eats really fast, then she usually upchucks.

 

[Evo]

I went through a couple of years of building rockets and rocket cars, around seventh and eighth grade. I still have some 8 mm film in the closet, showing the rocket cars zooming across some outdoor basketball courts.

I built this one rocket that had three rocket motors in one stage. On the first launch one of them ignited, but not the other two. Because of the asymmetric thrust, the thing flew an arc trajectory and hit the ground before the parachute came out. That meant the first launch was the last launch for that particular rocket.

How big were they? Do you still have the urge to build them? Or are you less fearless now?

 

[jimmy p]

one of the kittens pissed on my bed. I have my suspicions as to which one, but can't colaborate enough evidence before I put it on trial

 

[zoobyshoe]

You can't "colaborate" enough evidence?

 

[jimmy p]

ok, I am not so good with technical terms... jeez, when did everyone get so critical. One of the kittens also pissed on an armchair...a pattern is emerging.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I went through a couple of years of building rockets and rocket cars, around seventh and eighth grade. I still have some 8 mm film in the closet, showing the rocket cars zooming across some outdoor basketball courts.

I think you might really enjoy this movie:

October Sky: Film Review di Guido Mezzabotta
Address:http://members.optushome.com.au/thesquiz/october.htm
I had never heard of it, but picked it out at the video store because it looked interesting. I ended up feeling that I had really lucked out and picked up a good, unknown film by sheer accident. The fact it is a true story made it all the more engrossing.

 

[Chrono]

One of the kittens also pissed on an armchair...a pattern is emerging.

Yeah, it seems that one of the kittens doesn't seem to like you. What'd you do?

 

[Janitor]

In answer to Evo, the rockets were simple cardboard tube & balsa wood things, weighing only ounces. The motors were rated by total impulse, lowest being called "A," and so on. I once ordered an "F" motor, but I got a letter from the company saying that the amount of powder in it made it illegal for them to ship through the mail, a fact they conveniently omitted from their catalogue. I don't have the urge to do that now; I guess I got it all out of my system back then.

To Zoobyshoe: I have actually heard of that movie, though I have never seen it.

 

[jimmy p]

im not too bothered... my bed but my dad's chair... What am i going to do?? remove its bladder.

 

[Chrono]

What am i going to do?? remove its bladder.

Well, if all else fails.

 

[rathma]

You "heard" me...

Suicidal turtles?

Oh yeah. Anytime I even enter the room they start banging their heads against their cage walls and attempting to hang themselves from their little wooden houses that my dad and I built for them. That, and stepping on their own necks. You see, they both have very long necks, and they sleep with them fully stretched out, and then bent around in front of them. The problem is, they often have seemingly violent dreams in which they must do a great deal of stomping about and hissing at things. (That's right. They hiss, too.) Duing this constant process, they inexorably collide some part of their body with their necks, which of course remain wrapped halfway around their bodies the entire time. The living room in our house, where we keep them along with my two lizards, (Don't even get me started on them ) is often a lively place with the turtles ever causing a great deal of ruckus.

Chaos. Disorder. Widespread panic. My work is done here.

 

[jimmy p]

Well i don't feel so bad now. One of the kittens crapped twice on my parents' bed and repeatedly soaked it with urine.

I got my comeuppence for laughing though, cos the little bastard pissed on my bed and crapped UNDER it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

To Zoobyshoe: I have actually heard of that movie, though I have never seen it.

I think you would really enjoy it. I rented it from Blockuster. They probably have it at your neighborhood Blockbuster. Unless you don't have one in your neighborhood.

 

[Tsu]

Zooby! Tell us the story of how you were able to escape from Hotel California :surprise: to your Zooby Brush Shelter!

 

[Ebolamonk3y]

I used to be a pyromaniac and got caught by police... :)