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TR, Molly is about 20 feet tall. You can't miss her.

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niiiiiiiiice!

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TR you have had pics up and I have a good memory - and Molly I know what you look like - so you two can count as exceptions to the rule

Generally chatting to a silhouette is as unnerving as bantering with a ghost to someone as nosy as me, anyway

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Daniela, I like that Wizard of Oz comparison I AM THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE WIZARD OF OZ

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LaFonda, the pic vs no pic debate has raged a long time! I've talked to 2 faceless in the past - one was married, and the other in a relationship.

I usually have a pic up. In the past when I deleted all my pics it was because I didn't want to crop up in photo-only searches - I'm not pretty so didn't want to be bothered by a series of guys who thought I was probably desperate enough to be gullible / not too picky. Now I just block off everywhere but Europe.

I like blogging, and I like faces. Smiling ones, anyway. Don't even mind if the pics haven't changed in the omg nearly 5 years I've been hanging round this cyber coffee-shop - never going to meet them anyway, am I? I've met only around a dozen men and women in all this time!

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Prometheus, in your original comment you were critical generally - now you're saying my blog was a complaint at profiles.

Do me a favour - actually read it? It's a poem called NOT. It's quite sweet. It says that we are more than the statistics which slot us into categories, we are our smiles, our experiences, the sum of our lives. I didn't write it, I just quoted it, because I liked it and I thought others might too.

I don't post my useless blogs only in a desperate attempt to get attention. I live alone, I don't speak the local language, and I blog to chat, not to be told I'm a useless piece of humanity not saying anything worth hearing. Well, that was your opinion. I responded with mine. Lighten up, on a light blog! or go play the heavy on a heavy one.

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There you go

Rapidly running out of Tuesday here so I shall shortly be heading to bed, I'll leave the bottle for you fresh young things

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Crazy, right now we seem to be handing out worms. Wine as well?

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I lubs you Molly.

Here, you can have one of my worms.

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Daniela, are you on the right blog?

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Bekard, this is true, here even the bare facts have often been embroidered (or darned)

We are, when all is said and done, advertising. I always assume, when I read a profile, that the profiler has carefully picked the words, has as carefully picked out the photo(s). If the spelling and grammar is atrocious, or the wording suspect, then I'm not remotely interested - good grief, if the product doesn't look good even in the shop window, why look further. People who put up photographs where they are looking belligerent and knock you down as soon as look at you, wow. WHY?

Not that it was the point of this blog but still I do wonder

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Vier, do you sing in the car? That's maybe more important ...

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Wen, that is terrific news

RE: Child Labour Laws are Ruining this Country.

Ya think it's an across-the-pond thing? There have been some US shows that I absolutely loved, and thought very clever, and some UK shows which had a huge fan base which I watched once and avoided like the plague, so you could be right.

Because of the equity ban for so many years I probably didn't develop the right sense of humour

Don't tell anyone, but I could only manage Ab Fab in tiny doses.

RE: Child Labour Laws are Ruining this Country.

Aw, you should have left it to run I was really enjoying that

Still, no-one reads comments, if enough comments come in to cover your confession the fun can continue

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Atta boy!

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Mic

Robrt - well, I didn't write it, I copy / pasted (double-checked I put the author's name at the bottom!) and it means what you want it to mean, or maybe what I said in reply to Z take from it what, if anything, that makes actual sense to you

Meth, in some ways the safest place to reveal yourself is the internet, because no-one is really listening and there are so many millions and millions out there not really listening of course it is very important if you ever get famous, and if people can Google your social media name(s) and find you, that you quickly delete anything you wouldn't want people to hear now that they actually are listening

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Z - I'm not a big poetry buff and sometimes poems speak to me (and usually they don't). What I got from this, though, was that we live, especially on CS, in a cyber world where we are defined by our statistics. Someone can look great on profile and be awful in real life, and vice versa. No way statistics and checkboxes can sum us up as individuals.

But that was just my take. Liked it, thought I'd share, nothing profound.

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Wen! hey, great to see you!

and THAT's worth saying twice -

Wen! hey, great to see you!

How the devil are you?

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Thanks LJ - the trick is not in knowing ourselves, sometimes, but in explaining ourselves to people who don't know us

Sometimes - in knowing what to explain, even, because we take those bits for granted

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Molly, I absolutely love that cartoon. That is EXACTLY right for this blog!

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Keep SOME fruit, have to have some sweetness in your life and fruit is way better than candy

Duvet, eh? Hate to hear what she'd think of my pillow

RE: Jan. 21 - National Hugging Day!

Couldn't comment yesterday, just so busy hugging and hugging and hugging. Some people seemed not aware of the holiday but once I explained, y'know, they were ok with it. Okay, most of the them were okay with it. Some were.

Some may still be running or gabbling to the police.

Belatedly for you, Mic

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They are nice, aren't they? No if I was mine I would have posted in the poetry section, the poem is called Not (I did put it at the end of the blog, and the author's name)

May not be something I wrote but the words went ting ting we have to define ourselves in fairly limited terms here - good reminder that we are other intangibles as well

RE: The Rhodesian ridgeback

Luke, fab dog but never seen a black one either. In fact the ones I've seen may have had a touch of boerbul mixed in, they were bigger round the head. Yours is a beauty.

Friend of mine has just got a Boerbul / staffie 4 month pup from a rescue centre, pics on FB, I may be in love

RE: I Wonder What I’m Looking For

Harb, see, I found myself agreeing with you. A few years ago I decided the answer to being a selfish self-centred long-time-single was to live in a loose-knit smallish community with kindred spirits, total independence, but also interesting social options forever on tap, trouble is I haven't found it in real life, tchah.

Your blog made me look up long-term marriages and why, when grey divorce is one of the fastest-growing divorce statistics, some people aren't divorcing after 30 or more years together but are still even enjoying each other's company - what were their priorities, what do individuals really want of each other for the long haul. Fascinating reading. I have torn up most of my wish list and am working on an achievable one instead

Unless of course I can find my fictional community, then I am sorted anyway.

RE: I Wonder What I’m Looking For

Harb, I could actually hug you. What the hell, I will. Reading your blog made me do a bit of research and I suddenly have the ends of the thread in my hand, I know more clearly now what I'm looking for. I think you've sparked some blogs for me too, most likely not on here though, real life stuff.

You ROCK

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Fay, you don't blog enough, glad you are home now and will have the time. I actually thought of you today, local supermarket was selling shoulder bags for carrying dogs and yours would have fitted a treat. My current dog isn't an option but maybe next time

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Inthe, that is an absolutely beautiful belt

But I think I need elastic ties, because I am forever putting things down and then hunting for them. If they were dangling at knee level, and could be used without being disconnected from the belt, I would have a chance of keeping things together.

Luckily I only do small jobs, I can see the system (and me) falling down if angle grinders and kango hammers were involved. On the bright side, they're quite easy to spot when left in the wrong place ...

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Inthe, I think it is time to start working on some version of Batman's utility belt, where we can clip all the tools we're using onto stretchy loops? because I do that too