seconded.
But by all means, i don't follow the "fool of the bulls" argument from Torque. Bulls know how capitulation looks like, wait for it then and get in (around the infamous "mindrust point").
However, i'd need a new car within the next two years, solar power my home and pay off approx. $12k to the government to free myself from a payback plan from the government. Only the latter is really important, because otherwise i'd have to pay it off for the next 15 years for about double as much (mainly interest).
I can easily hodl the majority of my/the family stash for one or two decades.

Y'all remember that get-rich-quick-vs.-not-get poor-slowly quote, right?

I came to the decision, that from today i will only put bots and peeps who ask me to on ignore.
Your original post was also part of making me reconsider if ignore lists match my personal values.
(EDIT: and i used to click show/hide too often, anyway)

Somehow it's too emotional for me today, too many moving memories. i think i'll resort to read-only mode and mix myself a nice, big glass full of gin-tonic (Boar blackforest gin and schweppes dry) for the rest of the evening.
#snowflakeforever  

When i went for a visit of our new neighbor, he has a dog, a "muensterlaender", with a muzzle on.
Not all dogs are naturally trustworthy. Normally dogs are showing signs of escalation: Visual fixation, taking an upright and stiff posture, barking, growling, snatching, biting - in this particular order.
This one went right trying to bite my balls, as soon as he saw me getting out of the car and realizing me as a stranger. I was quite "surprised" in a negative way. So quick, without signs of warning.
Not all dogs are mentally "right", and i forbid my kids (they were inside the car) to get near this one. The holder almost lives like an eremite, the dog seems to take care of preserving and protecting the "family constellation", and it does it very seriously. In the world of dogs, he was acting plausible.

Most dog bites are "scare-bites", though, for example when accidentally stepped on the tail by a stranger. I actually had two cases of scare-biting with one of my dogs. The waitress he bit was panicking, rushed to the hospital and this means the doctors have to inform the police about the incident. As the dog was registered, they gave a warning, because the dog would be put down after a second bite. ...which occurred a year later. The renter of the flat i was living in, also scared of dogs, was talking to me through the half opened door, the dog was watching from my side. Then she suddenly stepped forward, my dog rushed to her leg and bit. It was a hostile move, from his point of view, because she was always avoiding to get near him, he must have recognized her like some stranger. It wasn't a hard bite, no blood at all, but she rushed to the hospital as well. I could save his life only because the local police chief was a relative of the renter and no serious injuries were caused (skin haematoma) by the bite, but i had to give him to the boarding kennels where i originally got him from. It's a good place, no cages, just a pack of dogs living almost naturally in a fenced area. It was a five hour drive, but i visited him as often as i could, until he died at the age of seven. It was a custom breed, and the (idiot) breeder incorporated incest into the breeding line, which made all the dogs genetically weak. As far as i know, my dog had the longest life of all dogs of his line. I came to see three other ones, all impaired. Mine was just overly suspicious, took me quite some time to earn his trust as well. The breeder's license got revoked later, too. I also continued to pay the monthly fee for the dog's home, like a recurring donation. They really got a heart for dogs there and the owner was a friend, otherwise he would not have given the dog away.

Gotta look for a pic now...

EDIT: He was also a real beauty, but he always had this worried look.

R.I.P.




this.

Well, you're right imo, but i even know a few guys (and gals) personally, who seem to unable to even say "hello" without swearing. It is just their version of etiquette, damn loyal people at their hearts, though.
If you are too polite, they will most likely call you a freaking faggot or something like that and tell to GTFO. They remember me a lot of the "cathleen's bike" people.
Back in the days, one told me he will punch out my girlfriends teeth and piss in the "hole", which would be translated to "i don't like what she just said".
So i might be much more used to "bad speech" than most other people.

When somebody is purely name-calling, i would see it as trying to distance himself from the one(s) he's directing his words at.
I guess we all swear and call names inside, but we were taught to keep it there.
Overall, it is considered "verbal violence", but i'd only consider it as violence if the one who is addressed with these wordings is suffering from it. If you continue to hurt somebodies feelings though you are aware, you're probably just an asshole.
All in all, it's a manifestation of the "dark side" we all have within, whether we realize it or not. Better let it out from time to time through filthy words, before somebody gets harmed, maybe even physically.
I believe swearing can be healthy and relieving, if "done right".

EDIT: muhfucka, more than 2000 posts already?!  I wonder how many of them were kinda "on topic" 

Seems to be an emotional day here at the WO folks...
I hope we all will be rewarded with a green $10k candle, which is predicted on twatter for today. But king daddy will just do what king daddy always does: he won't care.

From my point of view, family is much more for whom i care, not who is related to me, could well be an animal, too.

Lately, it seems signs of change pop up virtually everywhere, Bitcoin (and crypto) seems finally to be taken serious by the "laugh about you" peeps.
Hopefully the "fight you" era will turn into a extensive phase of adoption, because then "we all win"!

Aaah, fuck that! A dog is a friend. At least it is considering its human as such.
Sorry for your loss 

Name calling is honesty, though.
We were educated that it's not "polite", but i'm fine with it, because actions matter thousand times more than words.
Words are just a lining, decoration or vocally encrypted emotions with a little bit of explicit and/or implicit information as well (the payload).
One can see it as an expressive vocal art form. Think about Eric Cartman (and the fact he has friends, too).

To be honest, i'm trained by one of my sons, who regularly shouts at everbody else, swearing, namecalling...
We let him do. No discussion, though.
A few minutes later he comes back and is deeply sorry, which weighs hundred times more than the words he said before.

You're right there. I can't rant about society muting minorities and, at the same time, favor the ignore list.
I should read it all, and then decide each time if i want to get me involved. I let the ignore list silently steal this decision from me.
EDIT: Now going on with this day IRL

Yeah, we are usually faster with words than we're aware of the triggering emotions.
I can see valid points in both of your opinions. It's just that the underlying values seem to be very different.
Everybody is struggling with something, under the hood.  
This just affects all of our actions without us being aware.

For me, as an example, it's not fitting into this shitty society.
But here in WO it's different and that could well be the reason we're all still here.


Your environment is affecting us more than we are aware.
In the end, we're just not made to live our life like sardines in a tin box.

There's always at least one different view, on any topic. There's no harm done by trying to see it/them as well.
Peace of mind is nothing that is to be found, but it's something that has to be created.

...and i thought savetherainforest is on every WO's ignore list...

Consider, most of them seem ike ordinary people, some of them even look like they get overwhelmed by a decision like choosing between two different cans of cat food to open.
However, the latter were finally jumping, so they went well out of their usual limits.
I know it sounds ironic, but i really mean it this time.



C'mon! You knew that i'd like to hear 
Habaneros?

What a pity, spicy stuff fucks up my colon.
Even more so, i really loved hot spices in the past. I thought the pain was normal, for some time.
Maybe i should try again, because the Bromelaine also got me rid of reflux, may as well have some benefits for the whole intestinal tract.

Thanks, quite interesting.
But then again, dosing drinking water stupidly high will also kill you  

I will ask her on the next occasion, but i don't think so, she would have mentioned it, i guess. Google should be able to help answering that, too.
The Bromelaine itself does not taste like pineapple at all.
Though, what i know from a friend, if you actually drink a glass of pineapple juice, like he did, his girlfriend could get a hint of pineapple taste off his member juice.

As an ex-reflux victim, i can report only good experiences with raising the head end of the bed by an inch or less.
Of course, you should sleep on the back, possibly without a pillow.
Lying on the stomach is a no-go.
Lying on the stomach side puts stress on the stomach, only when it is not empty, but the reflux is generally eased, because the esophagus is in a slightly ascending position. Doing it the other way might feel better, but is actually worse in terms of reflux.
But that's only for easing symptoms. Then it's time to get to the root problem(s).

Generally, don't mix carbs with fatty food too much, it takes way longer to digest.

And there's a tip from the experts: Try eating slow by chewing longer. After about 20 minutes of eating your body should signal saturation, pretty much independent of how much you ate. This way you train yourself to eat more often, but don't fill up your whole stomach each time. I used to eat much, very fast, when i was younger, and that's what i blame for getting reflux problems.

Right. That's the new challenge right here for me: Checking if i'm posting to the right thread. So far it was a no-brainer, while i was about only posting in WO.
And the hats, these hats make me think i'm posting in WO all the time in this thread  


Hear, hear...
But from a very actively testing country i can tell that testing less than three times a week is about useless.
This is a real university? 

I experienced the effects of LSA as less mentally intense, more manageable, bit more decent and fine grained (visually) compared to LSD but quite extensive in auditive realms. I can remember listening to hours of acid techno that my brain on LSA made out of a buzzing refrigerator  

Lethality can be solved by resolving the poisonous parts of the seeds by grinding the seeds, soaking it for 24 hours in petrol ether, squeeze out the ether and let the remains fully evaporate. You can then soak the ground, dry, ether-free seed in food grade alcohol, which makes an easy to dose, psychoactive schnapps which virtually eliminates the onset time you have to accept when digesting the seeds. Also, no vomiting before things turn colorful and magically moving  
I think i got the original reciepe from an article off the erowid.org archives. A must-visit for every psychonaut.

If that is true, why can't it hurt my feelings?
Something doesn't work out.

EDIT: on the other hand, i'm doing the cooking today, while my wife is at work, so... 
Maybe you're a wee bit right, a wee, wee little bit.

Quick reply: Try Bromelaine (500mg) daily, before going to sleep. It's basically pineapple enzyme, liberated me from chronic reflux problems and, as a side effect, makes my jizz smell and taste way better ...according to my wife, didn't try it myself, but i think she's credible enough  

This one got me stoked, while thinking bout proudhon, exphorizon and the cuntonians.
Now it's clear who is swimming in the shallower waters of the WO