Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[DiracPool]

Yes, but you guessed right, so it's on you.

Oh, no you don't. I'm not taking responsibility for that

 

[WWGD]

Jeez, a post framed in that manner begs to get a spoiler. Lucky for you I haven't seen the film. But it's a true story and you can look up the conclusion probably in Wikipedia.

There's actually a really good documentary on it I think Netflix has it. It's called the wire, or something

I did a similar scene, at a height of around a foot and a half, wolking over fatter pipes. Not as easy as it seems.

 

[DiracPool]

I did a similar scene, at a height of around a foot and a half. Not as easy as it seems.

A foot and a half is no joke, you can break an ankle at that height, not to mention a fingernail!

 

[WWGD]

A foot and a half is no joke, you can break an ankle at that height, not to mention a fingernail!

I should have said half-a-foot, over a collection of fluffy pillows.

 

[DiracPool]

I should have said half-a-foot, over a collection of fluffy pillows.

I do admire your careful pre-planning, I must say

 

[WWGD]

Nightly news shows seem like such an anachronism. Who needs to watch news hen they have an internet connection?

 

[WWGD]

Former " Married With Children"'s Ed O'Neill seems to have aged precipitously.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It is highly improbable Lester Nygaard will be returning from the dead.

I spoke too soon. Season 2 is a prequel that takes place in 1979. Lester may well show up as a kid. Some of the other characters have.

 

[DiracPool]

It's not the kind of show where a person can come back to life.

I spoke too soon. Season 2 is a prequel that takes place in 1979. Lester may well show up as a kid. Some of the other characters have.

I don't know what to believe anymore Zoobs. You seemed so confident an hour ago just to have it all collapse.

 

[DiracPool]

I'm a member of "Massage Envy" I'm not going to tell you the exact location because I don't want you to track me down...

http://www.massageenvy.com/clinics/WA/Tacoma.aspx

But I highly recommend getting a membership if there's one in your area. It's $59 a month for the membership. What you get is one 1-hour massage a month plus a discounted rate on another massage(s) and special pampering treatments like sugar footrubs, if that's your thing (and I like to be pampered ).

At the clinic I go to, they got this girl named "jaqueline," She's the deep tissue mistress. I have an appointment with her on Thursday.

She doesn't F%^$ around. Get's straight to the point, whether you're ready for it or not. She does her thing, smacks you in the ass and throws a cooling pad at you as you're walking out the door. But you're glad to have it.

The main point is that I think it's really important to have a professional "human touch" in your life. And that specifically means NOT your girlfriend or spouse. It means an objective human caring (clinical) touch that is freed of any emotional entanglements. It's not a sexual thing, it's something else, something that I think the appreciation of may come with age and a little wisdom.

 

[DennisN]

 

[lisab]

I'm a member of "Massage Envy" I'm not going to tell you the exact location because I don't want you to track me down...

http://www.massageenvy.com/clinics/WA/Tacoma.aspx

But I highly recommend getting a membership if there's one in your area. It's $59 a month for the membership. What you get is one 1-hour massage a month plus a discounted rate on another massage(s) and special pampering treatments like sugar footrubs, if that's your thing (and I like to be pampered ).

At the clinic I go to, they got this girl named "jaqueline," She's the deep tissue mistress. I have an appointment with her on Thursday.

She doesn't F%^$ around. Get's straight to the point, whether you're ready for it or not. She does her thing, smacks you in the ass and throws a cooling pad at you as you're walking out the door. But you're glad to have it.

The main point is that I think it's really important to have a professional "human touch" in your life. And that specifically means NOT your girlfriend or spouse. It means an objective human caring (clinical) touch that is freed of any emotional entanglements. It's not a sexual thing, it's something else, something that I think the appreciation of may come with age and a little wisdom.

I love professional massages! Well and non-professional ones too. You're right, it's a good practice to include in the Care and Feeding of Your Body.

 

[WWGD]

I love professional massages! Well and non-professional ones too. You're right, it's a good practice to include in the Care and Feeding of Your Body.

I thought people who gave massages were called massagynists. That clears up _a lot_ of confusing statements.

 

[DiracPool]

I thought people who gave massages were called massagynists.

Well, let me give you fair warning, WWGD, you definitely don't want to "wax misogyny" around Jaqueline, she'll kick your ass

 

[zoobyshoe]

I don't know what to believe anymore Zoobs. You seemed so confident an hour ago just to have it all collapse.

Right? However, flashbacks to prior points in history are only metaphorical 'returns from the dead'. Not literal ones, as with Spock.

O.K., then. Anyway, the opening episode of season 2 was pretty darn good.

 

[WWGD]

Right? However, flashbacks to prior points in history are only metaphorical 'returns from the dead'. Not literal ones, as with Spock.

O.K., then. Anyway, the opening episode of season 2 was pretty darn good.

I always wondered why that theme has become so common recently, all these moves about the living dead, vampires, etc., you know, the whole Twilight saga and so on. I find it kind of boring.

 

[WWGD]

Well, let me give you fair warning, WWGD, you definitely don't want to "wax misogyny" around Jaqueline, she'll kick your ass

Sounds like my kind of massgynist. I may call her if I drop by Seattle.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I always wondered why that theme has become so common recently, all these moves about the living dead, vampires, etc., you know, the whole Twilight saga and so on. I find it kind of boring.

Vampires have been really big since the publication of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's, Carmilla. Bram Stoker was actually riding on the coat tails of Le Fanu's success when he wrote Dracula. Carmilla was actually much more like todays vampires: she passed herself off as human really successfully, and worked by personal and erotic seduction.

Zombies are much more recent. Night of the Living Dead (1968) really creeped people out on some fundamental level, despite being low budget and not well made. But the real shot in the arm came from Michael Jackson's extended music video, Thriller. The people making zombie movies today grew up on that video.

 

[WWGD]

Vampires have been really big since the publication of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's, Carmilla. Bram Stoker was actually riding on the coat tails of Le Fanu's success when he wrote Dracula. Carmilla was actually much more like todays vampires: she passed herself off as human really successfully, and worked by personal and erotic seduction.

Zombies are much more recent. Night of the Living Dead (1968) really creeped people out on some fundamental level, despite being low budget and not well made. But the real shot in the arm came from Michael Jackson's extended music video, Thriller. The people making zombie movies today grew up on that video.

Good points, I thought it had something vaguely to see with the fear of being buried alive that existed in the middle ages somehow. Makes sense since it is a relatively recent thing. Still, I think Voodoo takes it seriously.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Good points, I thought it had something vaguely to see with the fear of being buried alive that existed in the middle ages somehow. Makes sense since it is a relatively recent thing. Still, I think Voodoo takes it seriously.

Before Night of the Living Dead there were a few voodoo zombie movies, but they weren't that popular. Voodoo zombies are people completely psychologically enslaved by people with the mojo to do it. The modern zombie is something else: corpses animated by some exotic virus. In Night of the Living Dead the cause of zombiism is not Voodoo, but some undetermined thing that can affect large numbers of people:

Experts, scientists, and the United States military fail to discover the cause, though one scientist suspects radioactive contamination from a space probe. It returned from Venus, and deliberately exploded in the Earth's atmosphere when the radiation was detected.

-Wiki
Most of the zombie films since have used that sort of device to explain the phenomenon: it's an outbreak of some undetermined nature.

In my opinion the popularity of zombie movies arises from the fact it's the only scenario where it's socially acceptable to kill mass numbers of human-like things with complete impunity. If you don't kill them, they will kill you, so anything goes. (See above clip.)

 

[WWGD]

A dream come true: Whole Foods has a brand name line selling quality bacon (no nitrites) at a reasonable cost. Now I need to figure out where to buy an industrial oven where I can cook 100's of packs at a time -- a microwave oven only cooks one at a time.

EDIT: Dont get me wrong, this is one of my indulgences; I exercise, try to get my fruits, vegetables regularly, but I like bacon too much to leave it. So I broil it to make it leaner.

 

[WWGD]

Tonight's lentil soup had what the French would describe as " a certain I don't know what".

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tonight's lentil soup had what the French would describe as " a certain I don't know what".

It could be I don't need to tell you this but, "je ne sais quois" is generally a good thing:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/je-ne-sais-quoi

 

[Evo]

I won't buy anything from Whole Foods, Their "fresh produce" is full of gnats. The worst food ever. I thought maybe it was just my store, then I watched Top Chef and several times chefs lost because the seafood they bought at Whole Foods was rotting and they lost because the seafood was inedible.

 

[DiracPool]

I started putting parsley in my daily nutri-BLASTS!

https://www.nutribullet.com/

But you have to be careful, too much parsely gives it that weird parsley minty taste. So you have to be conservative. However, they play up the health benefits of parsley so much you feel inclined to overdo it, but don't fall for this.

I try to mix it up, but my current concoction in my fridge is organic Italian Kale, organic red chard, frozen blueberries, walnuts, non-organic cameo apple, non-organic parsley, and organic broccoli. You just blast the thing in the blender for 20 seconds and it tastes delicious. And cleanup is a SNAP!

 

[WWGD]

I started putting parsley in my daily nutri-BLASTS!

https://www.nutribullet.com/

But you have to be careful, too much parsely gives it that weird parsley minty taste. So you have to be conservative. However, they play up the health benefits of parsley so much you feel inclined to overdo it, but don't fall for this.

So, Quinoa and Acai are not the solution to all of one's health problems anymore?

 

[WWGD]

It could be I don't need to tell you this but, "je ne sais quois" is generally a good thing:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/je-ne-sais-quoi

This one was also a good one; never heard of it being used to describe a negative quality, but then again, I have only
heard of it/ seen it being used a few times.

 

[Lisa!]

You come from a town where
People don't bother saying hello
Unless somebody's born or dies

And I come from a place where they
Drag your hopes through the mud
Because their own dreams are all dying

Yeah< I'm that depressed!

 

[PWiz]

@Lisa! Watch a few movies - they always help. If all fails, go for Spongebob.

 

[nuuskur]

Cartoons always cheer me up when I'm feeling down.