[hiddenaway]

I - I've referred to Drew as my Careybear so much that I've started to read carebear that way automatically.

[mote.of.soul]

Well, I'm off to the pharmacy later to get me a 4 pack of enima laxatives. It needs to be done, in more ways than one. Hey that rhymes✍️🤔

[hiddenaway]

Every time I check my fb group notifications, I end up reading new posts as Drew posts.

[Mountaindewed]

This is how people get obsessed. Everybody needs to go eat some fruit.

From the movie Signs.

[MuddyBoots]

Shyt don't go through my stuff

[Mountaindewed]

Now everyone is gushing over Dianne Feinstein when she is dead when they were super hard on her and pushing her to resign when she was alive.

[hiddenaway]

Drew recently described himself as a junkie for love and I've yet to hear a more accurate description.

[Mountaindewed]

I'm wondering what the rest of my PT will look like. I'm trying to figure out how a non doctor health worker makes a patient feel ok with what they are doing.

[nonightowl]

Glad I found a fan somebody left by the dumpster, which means if it works okay I don't have to buy another to replace my old one that finally quit. And happy I saved a plant's life, as someone was throwing out a plant. I don't have a green thumb but it looks good and might do okay.

[MuddyBoots]

"just take the absolute value of your mood"

[Brego]

I do not need to be pretty like Angelina Jolie because I just need to be pretty like me!

[hiddenaway]

I hope Drew wears the blue suit he was wearing on Friday again soon.

[mote.of.soul]

I'm starting to dream more about people I knew as opposed to the dream strangers.

[Crazy Hitch]

Is there too much honey in my herbal tea?

[hiddenaway]

I need a nap...

[Mountaindewed]

It feels like I'm in the alaskan tundra. This cooling comforter isn't going to work out for the colder months.

[mar dhea]

Seems anywhere I go
I'll find a land mine
and blunder my way onto it.
Doesn't seem to take too long either you know?

You'd think I'd know better
after all this time
and stay out of certain fields.

Perhaps I should be grateful for this dumb-stubborn heart.
It tends to take a bit of damage
but still has me marching on.

Becoming more difficult though
to remember that swift confident step
back when I was worry free, unwitting
and whole.

[rechu]

Why is it that some people have to be so negative? I participate on a forum for expats living in the country where I live. I posted a picture of this lake my husband and I visited. It had been completely dry and now is filling up again after years because we've gotten a lot of rain. It was beautiful and it's great the lake is recovering.

Some guy had to respond with a rant about how he'd never go there because there are a lot of nice/expensive houses and the camping places charge money and it shouldn't be like that. Really? What's his problem?

[nonightowl]

Originally Posted by rechu

Why is it that some people have to be so negative? I participate on a forum for expats living in the country where I live. I posted a picture of this lake my husband and I visited. It had been completely dry and now is filling up again after years because we've gotten a lot of rain. It was beautiful and it's great the lake is recovering.

Some guy had to respond with a rant about how he'd never go there because there are a lot of nice/expensive houses and the camping places charge money and it shouldn't be like that. Really? What's his problem?

Which is why I don't post much stuff, because even seemingly innocent comments get twisted around. I doubt if the things people say online is something they'd say to the person face to face. It's the anonymity of the Internet that does it. Not all forums have a lot of moderation. I've even seen mean comments to others about their experience with a spam or scam phone call/text!

Really I don't have the thick skin or stomach to do too much online. Even a site I used to go for WEATHER buffs got taken down because of members getting into arguments (not about weather!) and dragging others into it as well.

[rechu]

Wow, arguments on a weather forum. That's just sad.Good point, nonightowl in general about people posting things they wouldn't actually say. That forum is pretty small and most people have participated for a while, so things are usually quite civil.


The thing is, this guy has made enough comments about his life, that you can tell he has quite an elite life himself. He gets paid a US-type salary. From comments about his house, it's about twice the size as mine. He just bought an electric car, which he loves to virtue signal about. Electric cars are extremely expensive in this country. Maybe he can't buy one of those houses that overlook the lake, but he's living a pretty privileged life compared to most people who were born in this country. I guess he's sort of like our government. They try to act like they are some sort of Che Guevara revolutionaries, but they come from upper class backgrounds.

[nonightowl]

Originally Posted by rechu

Wow, arguments on a weather forum. That's just sad.Good point, nonightowl in general about people posting things they wouldn't actually say. That forum is pretty small and most people have participated for a while, so things are usually quite civil.

The thing is, this guy has made enough comments about his life, that you can tell he has quite an elite life himself. He gets paid a US-type salary. From comments about his house, it's about twice the size as mine. He just bought an electric car, which he loves to virtue signal about. Electric cars are extremely expensive in this country. Maybe he can't buy one of those houses that overlook the lake, but he's living a pretty privileged life compared to most people who were born in this country. I guess he's sort of like our government. They try to act like they are some sort of Che Guevara revolutionaries, but they come from upper class backgrounds.

Yeah, a WEATHER forum. One guy took issue with another's avatar, of which he was offended. It just spiraled out of control. For awhile just the forums were removed, you could still view beautiful weather pictures such as rainbows or clouds. Then the site went away altogether. It was okay for a few years, but it did attract a lot of spam too.

There's a real person on the other end of any comments you see online. Funny those comments coming from someone who's privileged himself---I think that's hypocrisy??

Speaking of comments, I used to be able to view comments on X (formerly Twitter) but now I have to sign in to do so. I never looked at much, just a quick glance. Now I can't see even one comment. Maybe that's a good thing.

[Mountaindewed]

My family and therapist were telling me it was just a routine nationwide test alert, the FEMA thing, and not to worry. But there was all this dumb stuff on Twitter and TikTok about #end of times. So I'm freaking out for a week and I'm a mess all this morning. Then 45 minutes ago it was literally like a 5 second thing and then it was over. TikTok needs to go shove it and I need to learn how to majorly calm down and focus on whats really going on in the world.

Honestly, it was bothering me quite a bit because I do feel a ton better now.

[nonightowl]

Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

My family and therapist were telling me it was just a routine nationwide test alert, the FEMA thing, and not to worry. But there was all this dumb stuff on Twitter and TikTok about #end of times. So I'm freaking out for a week and I'm a mess all this morning. Then 45 minutes ago it was literally like a 5 second thing and then it was over. TikTok needs to go shove it and I need to learn how to majorly calm down and focus on whats really going on in the world.

Honestly, it was bothering me quite a bit because I do feel a ton better now.

That alert almost gave me a heart attack but this time I recognized it for what it was, though I didn't know about it in advance because I don't read/listen to much news-----from ANY source. I was hoping it was just a test and it was.

We are living in troubling times to say the least but this end of the world stuff is going too far. It does feel apocalyptic but those online posts just cause a panic....

[rechu]

Once we got one of those for a tsunami alert - in Antarctica! Yes, our country claims a piece of Antarctica and there are some bases there, but it's thousands of km from the mainland. I don't even live near the coast. Most of the country got it and it freaked a lot of people!

[Nammu]

Got the text alert while playing cards at the senior center. Everybody’s phone went off and it bought a pause to playing cards, then everyone had a good laugh about it and life went on.