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  • R Rainman
    8 Jul 2020, 03:16

    @Horace said in A Shaky Future?:

    is that why they all seem to have written so beautifully? Because whenever they did write, it was a dissertation they'd been mulling over for days?

    Nope. Sorry dude, some of us just have it, some don't. I'd call it a natural gift, like my incredible beauty and awesome strength.
    ๐Ÿ’ช

    Keep trying, Horace.
    Or, ask Ax for help.

    Ax, are you busy, budd??

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    Horace
    wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:19 last edited by
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    @Rainman said in A Shaky Future?:

    @Horace said in A Shaky Future?:

    is that why they all seem to have written so beautifully? Because whenever they did write, it was a dissertation they'd been mulling over for days?

    Nope. Sorry dude, some of us just have it, some don't. I'd call it a natural gift, like my incredible beauty and awesome strength.
    ๐Ÿ’ช

    Keep trying, Horace.

    I am also good looking and strong. Where we differ is that I am not fat.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • H Horace
      8 Jul 2020, 03:19

      @Rainman said in A Shaky Future?:

      @Horace said in A Shaky Future?:

      is that why they all seem to have written so beautifully? Because whenever they did write, it was a dissertation they'd been mulling over for days?

      Nope. Sorry dude, some of us just have it, some don't. I'd call it a natural gift, like my incredible beauty and awesome strength.
      ๐Ÿ’ช

      Keep trying, Horace.

      I am also good looking and strong. Where we differ is that I am not fat.

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      Rainman
      wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:23 last edited by
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      @Horace said in A Shaky Future?:

      @Rainman said in A Shaky Future?:

      @Horace said in A Shaky Future?:

      is that why they all seem to have written so beautifully? Because whenever they did write, it was a dissertation they'd been mulling over for days?

      Nope. Sorry dude, some of us just have it, some don't. I'd call it a natural gift, like my incredible beauty and awesome strength.
      ๐Ÿ’ช

      Keep trying, Horace.

      I am also good looking and strong. Where we differ is that I am not fat.

      Well, I wear fat proudly. Stand tall, hang low.
      It took me a lifetime, so why be modest.
      I'm hungry. Think I'll go find a Mik thread and look at good things to eat.

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        Horace
        wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:30 last edited by
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        My power packs are bought and paid for as well. I will be the last to starve during a famine due to my clever use of my body's ability to store nutrients for emergency use. And I NEVER withdraw from that calorie fund. I only deposit. So I can be ready.

        Education is extremely important.

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        • C Catseye3
          8 Jul 2020, 03:16

          Aqua, thanks for sharing your profession. You're right there in amongst the wars, aren't you?

          Journalism was what I was born to do. I turned away from it at a young age, and it remains to this day my greatest regret.

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          Aqua Letifer
          wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:34 last edited by Aqua Letifer 7 Aug 2020, 03:35
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          @Catseye3 said in A Shaky Future?:

          Aqua, thanks for sharing your profession. You'll right there in amongst the wars, aren't you?

          Eh, not right now I'm not. I had this great idea to go for something closer to a living wage and as a result, I've been in professional limbo for a bit lately. Which is okay. There's been a lot of other stuff going on, and I know now that I have to at least give a shit a little bit about how I spend my time. As I've gotten older I've unfortunately not become more flexible with nonsense. Makes jobs and professional relationships hard.

          Journalism was what I was born to do. I turned away from it at a young age, and it remains to this day my greatest regret.

          I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. Watching its collapse has been interesting. By dumb luck alone I've made it past six massive layoffs and three company turnovers in about the past decade. One day I stopped to speak with my layout person about my upcoming issue and her stuff was gone. Same thing happened to my marketing person weeks later. Then my co-worker. I spent about six months waiting for my boss to come have a chat with me. But it never came, and I helped him find and hire my replacement before I left to get my master's. They tanked the whole damn publication and others like it just three months later. All that was prior to '08. Lots of similar shit since then.

          It's not really a profession anymore, most places. (Like I said I don't know much about broadcast news.) The vast majority of the legwork is done by contractors and freelancers for peanuts. You've missed a long, dramatic collapse. Be glad you have! ๐Ÿ™‚

          Please love yourself.

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          • A Aqua Letifer
            8 Jul 2020, 03:34

            @Catseye3 said in A Shaky Future?:

            Aqua, thanks for sharing your profession. You'll right there in amongst the wars, aren't you?

            Eh, not right now I'm not. I had this great idea to go for something closer to a living wage and as a result, I've been in professional limbo for a bit lately. Which is okay. There's been a lot of other stuff going on, and I know now that I have to at least give a shit a little bit about how I spend my time. As I've gotten older I've unfortunately not become more flexible with nonsense. Makes jobs and professional relationships hard.

            Journalism was what I was born to do. I turned away from it at a young age, and it remains to this day my greatest regret.

            I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. Watching its collapse has been interesting. By dumb luck alone I've made it past six massive layoffs and three company turnovers in about the past decade. One day I stopped to speak with my layout person about my upcoming issue and her stuff was gone. Same thing happened to my marketing person weeks later. Then my co-worker. I spent about six months waiting for my boss to come have a chat with me. But it never came, and I helped him find and hire my replacement before I left to get my master's. They tanked the whole damn publication and others like it just three months later. All that was prior to '08. Lots of similar shit since then.

            It's not really a profession anymore, most places. (Like I said I don't know much about broadcast news.) The vast majority of the legwork is done by contractors and freelancers for peanuts. You've missed a long, dramatic collapse. Be glad you have! ๐Ÿ™‚

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            Catseye3
            wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:44 last edited by
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            @Aqua-Letifer said in A Shaky Future?:

            You've missed a long, dramatic collapse. Be glad you have!

            Yeah, I've had that thought over the years: How I would have done in the new, late-age whatever-it-is that passes for journalism. I think it wouldn't have much resembled the Bogart/Hepburn movies that so captured my very young imagination. I could see myself on the phone yelling, Get me rewrite!

            Heh!

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. โ€“ Mike Ditka

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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 03:47 last edited by
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              @Catseye3 ๐Ÿ˜

              Reality is less glamorous, more... I dunno, dumb, and people dress much more shabbily.

              That last might be just me, but I don't think so.

              Please love yourself.

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              • A Aqua Letifer
                8 Jul 2020, 03:47

                @Catseye3 ๐Ÿ˜

                Reality is less glamorous, more... I dunno, dumb, and people dress much more shabbily.

                That last might be just me, but I don't think so.

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                Catseye3
                wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 04:28 last edited by Catseye3 7 Aug 2020, 12:58
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                @Aqua-Letifer said in A Shaky Future?:

                . . . and people dress much more shabbily. That last might be just me, but I don't think so.

                Nah. Bogie would never have rocked the flannel pants. ๐Ÿ˜†

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. โ€“ Mike Ditka

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                  Mik
                  wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 18:12 last edited by
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                  โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    8 Jul 2020, 18:12

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                    Larry
                    wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 18:40 last edited by
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                    @Mik said in A Shaky Future?:

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                    I do.....

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                      Axtremus
                      wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 01:22 last edited by Axtremus 7 Sept 2020, 02:46
                      #72

                      Look, that picture shows the wrong way to drink from your enemies' skulls.
                      It should be obvious to even the village idiots that you cannot drink from the lower eyes/nose/mouth part of the skull -- liquid will just flow out of the eyes/nose/mouth holes so you cannot fill that part of the skull to drink from to begin with.
                      Use the upper, above the eye holes, part of the skull.

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                        Rainman
                        wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 02:07 last edited by
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                        That's just gross. From any direction.

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                        • A Axtremus
                          9 Jul 2020, 01:22

                          Look, that picture shows the wrong way to drink from your enemies' skulls.
                          It should be obvious to even the village idiots that you cannot drink from the lower eyes/nose/mouth part of the skull -- liquid will just flow out of the eyes/nose/mouth holes so you cannot fill that part of the skull to drink from to begin with.
                          Use the upper, above the eye holes, part of the skull.

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                          bachophile
                          wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 02:48 last edited by
                          #74

                          @Axtremus correct but not exactly

                          The mouth and nose and eyes donโ€™t open directly into the skull. But in the base of the skull are numerous foramina (small holes) to allow passage of nerves and blood vessels in and out. So yes it would leak but not through a large orbit or open mouth.

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                            Rainman
                            wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 02:54 last edited by
                            #75

                            No problem.

                            Flex Seal!! Only $19.95
                            Special formula to seal even those pesky internal skull leaks!
                            Yes, 32 oz. to seal even the most stubborn person's skulls.

                            But Wait. . . !!

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                            • B bachophile
                              9 Jul 2020, 02:48

                              @Axtremus correct but not exactly

                              The mouth and nose and eyes donโ€™t open directly into the skull. But in the base of the skull are numerous foramina (small holes) to allow passage of nerves and blood vessels in and out. So yes it would leak but not through a large orbit or open mouth.

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                              Axtremus
                              wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 03:05 last edited by
                              #76

                              @bachophile said in A Shaky Future?:

                              @Axtremus correct but not exactly

                              The mouth and nose and eyes donโ€™t open directly into the skull. But in the base of the skull are numerous foramina (small holes) to allow passage of nerves and blood vessels in and out. So yes it would leak but not through a large orbit or open mouth.

                              Interesting, I looked up the skullโ€™s structure in the โ€œComplete Anatomyโ€ app and I see what you mean. Thanks.

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