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If we were happy with what we had, why would we want change? Why would we need more? I saw an article ticking readers off for wishing people a happy new year.

The explanation was simple economics – if you want people to buy what you are selling, make them unhappy with what they have. They won’t buy a new phone, a new laptop, watch this TV show, until you’re preaching don’t Don’t DON’T be left behind, out of touch, out of the loop

Photoshop pictures to make them worry about their physical flaws, and watch your sales of anti-aging moisturiser soar, your body trainers and diet experts hop, your plastic surgeons nip and tuck, your dentists grin whitely. Even tattoo parlours are busier than they’ve ever been because not to have a tattoo is OMG just dead.

Guilt, discontent and fear are the greatest salesmen on earth. Make people aware of abuse to others, to animals, to the environment, and the money pours in. Make them worry about immigration, and the votes pour in to those politicians saying they can stop it.

To be happy with our non-upgraded existence, comfortable with our messy human selves, content with the way our lives are unfolding, would be very good for our health and wellbeing but would not suit politics or business at all.

Sod it, I’m still trying for a happy 2019 and in the face of political correctness, wishing you one too.

If all the computers in the world failed for 24 hours, I believe the entire world would crash and anarchy take over.

Right now we have vehicle manufacturers about to go bust due to a chip shortage.

It has become almost impossible to buy a PS5 games console. Toyota, Ford and Volvo have had to either slow or temporarily halt production at their factories. Smartphone makers are feeling the pinch too, with Apple warning that the shortage could affect iPhone sales.

Yet financial institutes are reliant on computers and the internet, all banking is done via IT and the internet

Now children are being taught at home using computers when a classroom is a far better learning environment.

This morning I was told in a local store there is a 6 month wait for the brand of washing machine I was going to buy due to the chip shortage.

I think that society as a whole has become way too dependent on IT and the internet.

There is a saying. “ Never put all your eggs in one basket”

i have watched a few docs on homeless people ,,, and to be honest i would never hand out money to any homeless person,,, for several reasons best known to myself ,,
but the bigger question is why are people homeless ,,, to which there are lots of reasons ,,,
and next the age range of homeless people ,,as it differs quite a lot ,,
so from the docs that i have watched including docs that have been interviews with all age ranges ,,
the following is what i saw,,
the young homeless people cover two main types ,,,the first are either alcohol or drug abuse ,where the family have had enough of them and kicked them out for making their own lives a misery ,,and these are the ones that just do not give a dam about anyone or anything except for them selves,but will always play the poor me card ,,
then you have the other youngsters who have left abusive homes or parents seeking a better life with out a plan of action and go couch surfing and the like until people have enough of them and tell them to move on,,
then you have the mid range age group ,that come from relationship break ups loss of job or just bad debts ,,this group also includes families with young kids in tow ,these are mostly eviction people and this group is going to grow at a alarming rate once moratorium ends ..
the oldest group has the biggest problems , mental health being a major contribution , no jobs and no job prospects ,and no family support ,drug and alcohol abuse ,these are the lost souls with little hope of a future ,,
homeless people live in motel rooms mainly families on what support they get ,the mid range tend to live in cars or vans as these still have jobs as such but never enough money to get out of the rut ,
the older generation are found in skid row if they are drug or alcohol dependant and in tent cities if they are not , tent city homeless people due to mental health problems cause more problems by piling up junk and trash all over, and that is why they kept moving on due to clean ups,
homeless hostels and shelters are not the safest of places probably the most dangerous ,
,,,this is a world wide problem that has never been solved surely with todays technology there must be a answer ,,but the truth is there will never be a answer ,,because you can only help people that want to help themselves ,sadly it is just another way of life or should that be a way of existing

I try to keep the kibble cat food in the woodshed to the point of nothing left to lay around for the night. Altho day can still be an issue. Like the other afternoon when I look and there is a coon sitting in the satellite dish I use sideways for bird feeder. And it is happily chowing down seeds. Of course by the time I get around the back way with rifle..long gone.
Then one night, go out to put wood on and there is an opossum eating kibble next to the cats. The week prior I shot one in the barn. Was able to shoot this one too. Deep snow out back so just toss out behind shed til thaw. Go out another night, there is another blasted possum. Shot that one, tossed into snow too.
Look out a couple days later and the last one if half eaten. Went out and tried to determine tracks. 4 toes, no 5, 4? Claws so not cat. Coyote, nah, would have hauled away. Fox?
That possum is all gone and something dug the older one out of the snow. My guy has idea...set up trail camera. Oh..yeah! Duh. And there when I looked thenext day were two coons.
I have learned that basically nothing eats possum except Southerners. And the way to prepare is to cage and feed clean food for a week since a possum eats anything, rotted, dead of any disease and more.
I also have grown up thinking of coons as a clean animal. Eats mice, chickens, eggs, fruit, veggies. Washes it food when available. Bread not tho.
But, dead possums? So researched it. They are scavengers, opportunists, omnivores. Eat anything. And to think I ate coon as a child. Tasty. Til mom refused to spend 2 hours making sure every bit of fat was off or it tainted the meat.
Set live trap. Apple and rotten egg. Both gone, trap not tripped. Blast those paws. So re-set with apple wired in a suet cage. Week and no coon. Nor sign of. Maybe smart and returned to river. But, soon snow will be gone and hens get to come out in daytime.
I know last coon was so big and smart, had to borrow trap from neighbor to catch. Bad part is cats around so can't bait with any food cats like. Did end up catching one lately before this episode. Boarder said he left her out when he did 5am wood fill. And it had sat in the shed for days with an apple. Dumb cat. They do learn tho to stay out after in once or twice.
I hate varmints!

i came across a tv show called judge judy ,,,well what can i say ..i can say this absolutely shocking that the tax payers money is being abused by people on welfare ,social security ,and the likes ,,
these payments are supposedly there to help people out in hard times ,all well and good ,but and a big but at that ,,is that the system is totally flawed and more so abused ,by greed, laziness, freeloaders , and every scumbag that wishes to abuse tax payers hard earned money, these people are virtually living rent free or paying very little as that is also subsidised ,,surely it is time for the people dishing out this money to wake up to the abuse that is going on ,,
maybe a solution would be to put a bounty on the heads of these freeloaders ,
like twenty percent of the money saved by turning these scumbags in,
the genuine people on benefits would have no worries ,,just sort out the freeloaders who are sitting back laughing at the system and more so at the hard working tax payer who is footing the bill for their easy life style,
surely there must be a way of getting these lazy no good layabouts to do some work in the local community to justify the help that they receive ,,,,
and don,t even get me started on the ones abusing the disability payments ,,,,,grrrrr it makes a tax payers blood boil ,,,,,,

Its about people that have passed on in your life. Their spirit and memories always stay with you. Through having dreams about them or seeing visions of them for that split 2nd. There is an afterlife I truly believe and reincarnation. The soul is reborn into somebody new . U will quite often come across this person and say to yourself u remind me of somebody . Beautiful piece of music.


I learned years ago that Native Americans have visions. Plus see visions regarding their ancestry.

Sunak the UK prime minister is trying to make a new law banning anyone born after 1st Jan 2009 from ever being able to purchase cigarettes. It's been initially approved by parliament, though many of the government voted against it.
This is a stupid law that will stop certain adults ever smoking, even though they would be in the presence of other adults who can purchase cigs and smoke. Freedom of the individual is again being attacked by a meddling government.

I have no idea if this is true or not.

You'll NEVER believe what women are putting in their va*ina now. Believe it or not, some women are rubbing crushed wasp nests on, in, and around their delicate little female flowers.

Wasps are pretty gnarly creatures. They can and often do fly quickly. They make large nests out of seemingly anything directly on the outside of homes. The buggers live in swarms - and they often attack perceived enemies in swarms.

You've probably been stung by a wasp at least once, right? If not, lucky you! Oh yeah, and their stings hurt, too. Unlike bees, they don't die after they sting; wasps continue to expand their nests and find other people and animals to sting again.

For some unknown reason, women have just recently started to stick wasp nests into their va*ina. Yes, you read that correctly - the latest trend of stupidity involves placing crushed wasp nests into one's own va*ina.

If you're among the one-half of the world who has a va*ina, would you consider putting wasp nests in your pink pocket? Where the sun doesn't shine?

If you're a guy, on the other hand, would you let your girlfriend get wasp nests - doesn't that sound crazy? - near her favorite body part of yours?

This trend isn't hearsay either.

The countless claims of alleged adult-rated use of oak galls seem to be true. By the way, oak galls are round balls on oak trees that come from a species of wasp called the gall wasp. They inject their larva - this is sounding nastier by the sentence - into leaf buds, the larva secretes chemicals that cause the balls to puff up, then they eat the not-so-tasty oak puffy balls - or whatever they're called.

The Daily Mail shared this nasty news with the world just days ago. Those wasp nests are able to make va*ina sting wherever their powder is applied and even dry out the vaginal canal. However, vaginal oak gall application is said to act as a douche of sorts, heal scars and even active wounds from episiotomies, and build back the uterus after the miracle of birth reaps havoc on mothers' bodies.

Popular Science notes that this quasi-treatment won't make vaginal canals tighter as rumor may have it.

OK - I'm not trying this oak gall stuff anytime soon, that's for sure. Would you consider applying crushed wasp nest in and around your no-no square?

We want to hear what YOU would do. Are the potential benefits worth it? I wonder what your friends would say!

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We have been through various scenarios regarding being stranded/shipwrecked on a deserted island. What to take- yeah a boat or a fishing rod blah blah blah... But the thing is, if you were on that deserted island, going about things as best you can, and then one day an inflatable love-doll washes up- of whatever gender or kink you got going, the exact inflatable object of your desires- How long would you wait to consummate the relationship?
Would you run down to the high tide mark tearing your clothes off as you go, then nail it with the ferocity of a wounded bull with its testicles caught in a George Foreman grill, or would you sit by the fire with it singing Christmas carols etc., until the time is right?

The next part of this thesis, assuming you were rescued from the island eventually, would you tell the rescuers the whole story or would your eyes dart around the room and you become evasive and talk about food instead? Would you leave the love-doll behind or take it with you? And if you took it with you back home, would you be tempted to smash it every so often for old time's sake?

Last night after work, I browsed the department store that is my new home. I looked at the clearance items and then went to the fragrance section. I dutifully checked out the Beautiful fragrance and talked to an associate at the cosmetics counter. She approached me about the full-time position at the Elizabeth Arden counter. I was a bit caught off guard. I was thinking, I don't wear much makeup and I don't have a clue about skin maintenance. I told her it sounds good but I would feel guilty about leaving my department. I feel a loyalty to my co-worker. She told me that I have to think about myself first. This has me thinking...

I consulted Mother and she encouraged me to go for it. I work today, so I will stop by the Arden counter and express my interest. Normally, I wouldn't attempt this position but it feels like a gift. I would be a fool not to act on it. I'll still love my chairs though.