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Happy thanksgiving to all our CS Americans

Jim - hope you have some appetite and get lots of phone calls in your self-imposed quarantine!

RE: The untold date gone wrong story.

Wow. Some big issues there.

Happy thanksgiving to all our CS Americans

Save me some leftovers too, please, one of you!

RE: The condition my condition is in.

Pardon my comment earlier, I was convinced Thanksgiving was around the 26th!

RE: It is done!

I'm not surprised you're taking it slowly - in every case I've known (i.e. not cremation) in SA and in the UK, the tombstone is placed months later, nearer or over a year, but perhaps that is in part to leave time for the bereaved to adjust. I am always being reminded on CS that people do things differently in different countries.

Life moves inexorably on and your good memories will at some point overtake your sense of loss. He's at peace, it is you who is not. It will come.

RE: Port Elizabeth

Drove through to a heavily-overcast Malaga this morning to fetch my daughter for a brief holiday, and although I took no photos I ask you to imagine driving through a series of tunnels bored through mountains and on the trip back, each time we emerged, a bit more sunshine and sky around ...

You have a great weekend too, Boet, and same to all who sail in this blog

Change your name change your life

A new twist, before I bow my way out for the evening - change your age, change your life. This bloke says being 69 is affecting his dating prospects and he doesn't feel 69 anyway so he wants to change his age to 49.

Stephen Colbert feels moved to mock. Huh. Half the 49 year olds on this website know better.

Change your name change your life

Whatyou, a nickname isn't necessarily completely different to your usual name, although I do rather like that Wolf option

Every case is probably different but in theory it evolves because people think it suits you, AND you like it enough you start using it when you introduce yourself to people because it feels right. A friend of mine nicknamed all her kids early on and one daughter still uses the nickname, one daughter hated hers and refuses now to answer to it, and her son will forever be known by most as Toad. Which is a fun name when you know he's named for Toad of Toad Hall, and why. Maybe not so cool otherwise.

Hope Whatyou works out for you

Change your name change your life

Mimi, the next time anyone accuses me of being high maintenance I shall point them in your direction

Even though I agree with you 100% as to the priorities

Change your name change your life

Bear, you just touched on a couple of my pet hates I really get tense when I've told someone I don't like a name, or they have the wrong name, and they continue to use it? and I dated - fairly briefly - a safari tour guide who mainly dealt with American tourists and he had picked up the habit of 'honey'.

Bye, honey. If you can't remember my name, you just got renamed history ...

Mind you, I say that, I never minded being called hen in Scotland. When my daughter came to live and work with me in her first summer in the UK I warned her to expect it and she got really indignant. 'Anyone who calls ME hen,' she declared, 'will get an earful on the spot'

So we get into the lunch queue in the canteen, and the woman serving said 'what you fancy, hen?' and daughter, meek as milk, says 'I'll have the curry please ...' you can train anyone with food

RE: Allopathic/osteopathic medicines....

The most open-minded of all are the pharmaceutical companies, constantly tracking down and examining traditional medicines from distant tribes in the forgotten corners of the world to see what can be adopted, adapted, adulterated, packaged and sold at 10 times the price.

It was sneer sneer sneer at echinacea which used to sell pretty cheaply in bottles of 100 - anyone seen what a blister-pack of 12 will suddenly set you back?

And ruthless? If they ever do find rhino horn has a genuine benefit, I give the species a year at best before total extinction in the wild, while forced breeding fills a million cages with extremely bewildered creatures sprouting horns all over their bodies ...

RE: SAMSUNG is to start work on the first ever smart TV that can be controlled by the user's mind

This is seen as a possibility, but talk about telepathy and that's wooo stuff for nutters? Ok I get it, it's science, totally different. And probably requiring some minor electrodes inserted in the brain ... I'm not knocking it, if the possibility exists it could be life-changing for some. Good blog subject! .

In Hitchhikers Guide Douglas Adams talked about changing TV channels by waving your hand, but having to then sit very, very still while watching.

RE: The social media 'threat'

Reviews are very much a double-edged sword. I check them when I am looking at products, and if there are lots of reviews I only read the mid-range ones and the bad ones - 'puff' reviews, lavishly praising the hotel, the restaurant, the book, the product or service to the skies, have become a bad joke. At least with the bad ones you know what you could get. (That's if there are LOTS. If there are only a few, I read them all)

I teach English as a second language through an online college and am reviewed after every class by my pupils, with any review above a 7 (out of 10) paying a small bonus and every review below a 7 meaning my pay is slightly reduced. Not long ago I had a 6 year old child for her first lesson (the WORST, by the way, they generally stare owl-eyed for the entire class) and it went really well, she was responding, confidently using the few words we'd learned, and actively enjoying herself, job DONE, I was really pleased. Until her mother rated me 1 out of 10 with the acid comment, in Chinese, I hope teacher will be more serious in future.

Change your name change your life

Red, I meant more that at one time you were flirting with the idea of moving to Scotland, you obviously haven't done that. I know you enjoy your visits there. Any sign of Nessie yet?

Change your name change your life

Whatyou, that's interesting, so no-one has ever called you by any name except the one you were given at birth? That's quite unusual, many people have family nicknames, or school nicknames, or even get to be called Mum (or Dad) for a while.

'Changing' a name is just really being known by one other than the formal name given at birth. It doesn't even mean changing it - Cher, for instance, and Madonna, were presumably not called by just one name at school and before they started making their 'brand'. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as I said in an earlier comment, wasn't called Buzz when born, it was a family nickname. Many of the commenters have said they resisted some nicknames and approved of others.

So you are unusual. You did of course change your name on CS, unless of course your birthname was Whatyou etc, which would be really very unusual.

Change your name change your life

Diova I treasure that missing at and will never see that name the same way again.

RE: Why is it when a woman likes my profile and I answer by sending her a message

Half the time when I get a 'like' the profile is deleted before I can even see who liked me. It's as though the 'like' button is a self-destruct

Don't take it personally. In fact if she doesn't reply don't take it personally. Even the genuine people on here are often dealing with issues we can't imagine. If someone doesn't reply, you dodged a bullet. Move on. Upward and onward, to infinity and beyond!

RE: The swamp that Trump is draining

'Drain the swamp' was "hokey" and then a joke and then he says he started saying it "as if he meant it" and was astonished by the reaction.

As always, I'm not trying to mock, or quoting suspect sources. I'm quoting the man himself with the video clip to prove it.

I must say I agree with him, I think it is incredibly hokey. Sorry to bring your old blog back, LJ, but when I did a Google search for connecting singles drain the swamp this was the only blog that came up, although I know it is still quoted ad nauseum in others even though he said how silly he thought the phrase as far back as Dec 2016.





Drain it? Of course he's right, it's a joke. His new acting AG seems, surely, to be quite a big alligator? I do (genuinely) wonder if your approval of him extends to cover all his appointments, including the ones that turn out to be a bit dodgy, or if you are loyally silent but relieved when he gets rid of them again.

Change your name change your life

oh well very few people do (read comments, I mean, not pop in - some rare visitors on this one )

RE: Friends

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

And that btw is one of my favourite movies and theme songs of all time

Change your name change your life

How very kind of you, right back at you. Hi.

How deflating, nothing in recent comments caught your eye as worthy of discussion.

RE: "THE GOOD SIDE"

There is kindness in the world every day, every way, every community, small things quickly forgotten. We've become a people who prefer to be shocked, indignant, angry, so this is a great blog, Nam.

Change your name change your life

GG, fact, you can call yourself any name you like - so long as there no intention to defraud. Isabella Rothschild, hmmm. Could get you some suspicious looks ....

How about if I called you Goldie instead of GG? Back in the days when numerology was particularly popular I would have asked how that vibrated for you ...

Change your name change your life

Hey, LJ, you are certainly the only person who calls me Elle, I don't mind any variation but tend to think of myself as Biff because most of the people I know here in Spain call me that. And oh dear now you make me feel bad about calling Ish Titch Sorry Ish!

Nena suits you, but perhaps you keep it to certain people only - a bit like me being very fond of the friends who call me Lizzie, but it is their name for me, I would never introduce myself as that.

Harb's Ma Barker made me go look her up because I always thought she was Ma Baker, probably the Boney M song.

Change your name change your life

Diova, wow, another voice not heard in far too long

I am seriously intrigued by this guy's name But the important thing is, have the years you've been using your 'other' name been good years, or do you feel a pang of nostalgia when you hear the old name?

Elizabeth's not a name here, the Spanish version of it is Isabel or Isabella, neither of which feel natural to me at all, so I guess I'm Biff for good now.

Change your name change your life

Hey Red long time no see! I see you're still in Northumberland, did you try Scotland and give up, or is it still on your list? Yup, much more settled now in Spain, hardly ever get lost any more unless you count last week in Motril, still can't speak Spanish but my Spanglish is improving

RE: Animal Dreams

Molly, they may say the same of you?

Fay, I never had a dog that wagged its tail constantly in its sleep, that's one happy dog you have there

So tired of being afraid

Fay, it strikes me if you had not stayed home you might have moved straight into the path of one of the four, your guardian angel was on overtime!

And yes sometimes it takes a real threat to put the others into proper perspective

GG wrap up warm and wrap your fingers round a mug of hot chocolate. Beach? Who has time for the beach?? but yes I must take the dog for a walk there soon now that most of the tourists have gone I am about 15 minutes drive away. Probably heading up into the mountains next weekend to visit the snow,as I have a family visitor

KN don't even think of wondering if your 3 out of 3 will falter, enjoy every single moment of stress-free now!

B, I picture your wife as thin as a lathe, with huge haunted eyes and a tendency to twitch at loud noises?

Yo Bogey hope you are safely home by now and outside a good French cognac after your ordeal I have got over my fear of flying but have never found anything fun about waiting in airports next time remove some clothes for the pic, more fun for us, should make for some interesting reactions while you wait too

So tired of being afraid

M4 - upward and onward, to infinity and beyond

So tired of being afraid

GG Dublin, has to say, doesn't sound enticing, but you do have one thing I don't, at a guess, central heating? I miss that, because sunshine is lovely, to be sure, but at 13 degrees I waddle round like the Michelin man in about 9 layers of clothes. Even at 20 degrees I'm wearing a warm jacket and wincing at tourists in shorts.

And this is going to sound crazy but when we do get a rainy day I actually get all excited about it mind you it took a year to reach that point! and I think the excitement would pass pretty quickly if the wet weather didn't.