Random thoughts III

[cowgirl836]

Random question for y'all.

Is Christmas fun for you? I keep hearing people mutter about some menial problem and then follow it up with that tired cliche "and that's why I hate the holidays"

My work really sucks leading up to holidays, but I still enjoy them. Even if I'm hosting an event and it takes a ton of prep work, I still look forward to them.

I understand if a tragedy happened around that time and you associate it with the event. Otherwise, what gives?

By the time I hit about 11-12, the holidays had gotten fairly stressful because of stuff with the grandparents. Trying to force you into going to their events, gift-giving to point out which grandchildren they didn't like, showing up at 11pm to ruin our nuclear family Christmas, my dad being cranky when we opened gifts.....So I guess I don't complain, but I don't get all rah rah time with family and traditions stuff because I just haven't had that experience. I think it will be a lot of fun once we have our own kids though. I'll probably look forward to it more then.

 

[cowgirl836]

Sorry...shoulda said 'normal pizza toppings' scale. Sausage and mushroom are at the top of my list, but overall, you'd have to concede that pepperoni is above nationally.

really? I guess I was just always led to believe that nobody liked mushrooms on a pizza.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Random question for y'all.

Is Christmas fun for you? I keep hearing people mutter about some menial problem and then follow it up with that tired cliche "and that's why I hate the holidays"

My work really sucks leading up to holidays, but I still enjoy them. Even if I'm hosting an event and it takes a ton of prep work, I still look forward to them.

I understand if a tragedy happened around that time and you associate it with the event. Otherwise, what gives?

I worked in retail or a retail type setting for almost 15. You see the absolute worse out of people when the holidays come. Like, disgusting behavior. And I'm not even talking about Black Friday. I've seen people yell at clerks and make them cry because they were out of stock on some toy or gadget.

I don't so much hate the holidays, I just hate what people become during the holidays, especially when it's supposed to be known for loving and appreciating those around you.

 

[00clone]

Bad things happen when you stop working out (sticking with the Dodgeball movie theme).

On the topics of reading and working out:

For all my joking about working out aside, my main beef is with the concept of 'working out'. A parable I recently heard: A senior demon assigned a junior demon to keep a person from a good life. After a few weeks, the junior demon came back dejected, for the person he had been assigned was keeping a good life. The senior demon asked what he saw. The junior demon said that his downfall was that the man got up every morning and took a walk, simply enjoying the walk...and in the afternoon, he read a bit of a book every day, simply enjoying the book. The senior demon declared "that's it, that's your opening...you put in his mind that he should be keeping track of his time and how his health is with his walk and it'll turn into pure drudgery...you put in his mind that he should be taking more care to memorize and analyze his books, so that he can speak on them to others, and they will become a source of duty and ego for him....

Thankfully, I've been blessed with a good metabolism (although it's not what it was) and an active life at work and home, so I don't have to specifically 'work out', and I enjoy things that enrich my mind without needing to impress others with it.

 

[cowgirl836]

I think we ALL know this. She just won't publicly say it because of the whole WDSM suicide watch that would happen afterward.

if we're going to be super honest here, WDSM would probably be the winner




or maybe I'm just saying that cause his birthday is this week. We'll never know!

 

[cyrevkah]

Thread is making me think of the scene from the original Time Machine where the books have all turned to dust and BDK is one of the Eloi. Since this is from an old H.G. Wells book that is over 100 years old it will not be relevant to BDK.

:sad:

I still can't make myself watch the Morlocks, I was scared of them so much when I watched it.

 

[cowgirl836]

Another thing I love about this thread.

In what other CF thread can you find a word like Euphemism used in four different posts on the same page?

maybe if it got involved in some political controversy and the Cave had to pick apart the semantics of it.

 

[00clone]

I consider myself an animal lover and I had never heard of a vizsla before. You made me learn something. Thank you

Just since we're on the internet and you can only see the word...it's pronounced vee-zshla, not vizz-la...I mean I'm not assuming you don't know, but if you've never heard of it, and only ever seen it spelled, it's definitely a confusing one for a lot of people. Essentially just like a Weimaraner, but red/brown instead of grey.

 

[00clone]

Hey, cowgirl, I see you're looking for signature ideas. I would recommend that comment from the accident wherein you said something along the lines of "if you're going to hit someone from the rear, hit them square, not to the side, cause it causes less damage"

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Well why waste my time reading a damn book when I can google fahrenheit 451 sparknotes and find everything I need.

Because maybe the person who wrote the sparknotes read the CliffNotes?

 

[CoKane]

Well why waste my time reading a damn book when I can google fahrenheit 451 sparknotes and find everything I need.

Because you will be ****ed when you have to write a decent paper or take a test over it.

 

[Rabbuk]

As a humanities major myself, I can confirm that Spark/cliff notes are about as useful for writing a paper as watching the movie of the book.

 

[00clone]

and speaking of vizslas and weimaraners, so my dog, being a foxhound, loves chasing. We'd go to the dog park, and he'd get a dog to run with him. If it wasn't a greyhound, V or W (sick of typing those words), he'd catch it in 50-100 feet and just bump it on the side with his nose like and strut like, yeah, I got you. With those other 3, though...he'd chase it, then hope it'd turn a corner or something so he could catch up, then when he realized he wasn't catching...he'd start doing this loud/pathetic...total hound dog bark/howl/wimper thing like...hey...you're supposed to let me catch you. Funny watching the other dog owners turn and wonder if he was dying or what the heck was going on.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I will say, and I always catch flack for it, but I ******* hated both Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby (Catcher moreso than Gatsby). Dreadful books, but especially Catcher.

 

[WooBadger18]

Because you will be ****ed when you have to write a decent paper or take a test over it.

and it isn't so much about fahrenheit 451 as it is about preparing you for higher education when you have to read a congressional research service report, an obscure book, or just your textbook, and there are no sparknotes on it.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

and speaking of vizslas and weimaraners, so my dog, being a foxhound, loves chasing. We'd go to the dog park, and he'd get a dog to run with him. If it wasn't a greyhound, V or W (sick of typing those words), he'd catch it in 50-100 feet and just bump it on the side with his nose like and strut like, yeah, I got you. With those other 3, though...he'd chase it, then hope it'd turn a corner or something so he could catch up, then when he realized he wasn't catching...he'd start doing this loud/pathetic...total hound dog bark/howl/wimper thing like...hey...you're supposed to let me catch you. Funny watching the other dog owners turn and wonder if he was dying or what the heck was going on.

Mine's a corgi, which is a herding dog. It's always hilarious because they're fat with short little legs, and people are always shocked at how fast they are when they see him chasing their dogs at the park.

I miss my dog.

 

[cowgirl836]

Hey, cowgirl, I see you're looking for signature ideas. I would recommend that comment from the accident wherein you said something along the lines of "if you're going to hit someone from the rear, hit them square, not to the side, cause it causes less damage"

save some other people lots of money. I should go back and find my comment from the Kansas Bball game a few years ago. That got so many likes and I wasn't even expecting it. Something about the refs feeding the game to KU like a baby.

 

[WooBadger18]

I will say, and I always catch flack for it, but I ******* hated both Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby (Catcher moreso than Gatsby). Dreadful books, but especially Catcher.

I never had to read catcher, but there is a special place in hell for ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. I hated that book.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

if we're going to be super honest here, WDSM would probably be the winner




or maybe I'm just saying that cause his birthday is this week. We'll never know!

Screenshotted and bookmarked.

 

[cyrevkah]

I wonder what class BDK is in now. He hasn't responded back at all.....