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"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Emmy, jokes aside they wouldn't, the need for bodies for starter surgeons is desperate and chronic. Nowadays they don't cut into anyone until shortly before they qualify, and that's living patients while a senior surgeon watches narrowly to make sure all their practice on various fruit products was enough, and step in rapidly if it wasn't.

Funny few believe in religion but they all want to go intact into the grave / grate.

You've seen the comments, nobody, but nobody, wants to be cut up and used to chase screaming nurses down corridors.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Molly, very funny.

Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I already said I'm sorry for using too many words stop teasing

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Molly, not a clue. Not only pc but accurate to refer to them as the Departed?

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Yup, it's NOT me, it's you lot. Can't read a plain bit of English when you see it. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't throw so many words into and around the mix, or maybe you're (nearly) all obsessed with the disposal of your remains and assuming that ends everything.

So I did a bit of CS research, out of mild interest. I started, of course, with Simmo, :sadflower: but his profile has captioned pictures rather than a self-description. They are apt and nicely worded.

Then I went back to about 2012 to look at blogs and find profiles that were still live, but not active. BTW a surprising amount of people who blogged regularly back then? They still log in, some very recently, but they stay silent. Anyway, definitely still among us.

The next comment is a scratch-together of the few profile biographies that have been quiet for at least 3 years that I found - the self-eulogies.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Haha Molly your style is distinctive

Think both your friends and enemies on CS would say you were never at a loss for something pithy and to the point to say Oh, and you used to be blurry ...

That do you?

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

This blog was inspired by the McCain eulogies - I'm not American and I knew very little about him except that he lost a long while ago to Bush The Younger and 8 years later, looking very elderly, lost to Obama, so I was intrigued enough that both political rivals had been asked to speak to watch the eulogies. I learned more about the man at his funeral that I'd known of him living and he was, turns out, helluva guy. Neither eulogy praised him insincerely, both said he was a seriously tough nut, but both gave credit where credit was due.

I want that. Not to have my enemies stand up at my funeral, necessarily but to think they'd find good stuff to say if they did.

RE: OMG

Molly, the reunion used to be for me and Mimi - what goes around comes around

And the snooty used to be yours and I nicked it -

Map was always the hugging teddy, now his heart breaks when another uses it

We just need more emojis. Make it so.

I so want to reserve this one but suspect I will be stuck with this

RE: OMG

Maybe tomorrow

RE: OMG

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that today you found a perfectly ripened avo?

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Yup, Imp, your quality of life seems on track

BA - not really about chatterboxes but you and Merc seem to be making your workouts work for you, so that's all that matters

RE: Check out these Moves....

Saw another video of her strutting her stuff in Kenya, same jacket, no improvement yet but she's trying. (I know, I know, very)

Throwin' shapes - does anyone in authority look good doing it? And I don't believe that's Macron

RE: Escape Artists

When I first got my cat I tried to keep him inside but yup, escape artist of note, he eventually got his way and I put in a cat flap.

That's not an option here, the front door seems to be 2" steel. However, there's a LOT of patio inside the property, two flights of stairs to run up and down, and he's old now.

He did get out when I first moved here and didn't reappear for 3 days, but has not tried to leave since. He pretends he is being held against his will, and has long whinges through the front door telling cats on the other side of the door what an evil jailer I am - but runs away when the door is opened.

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LJ, that's why they called the survey results surprising, because most people would and do assume that keeping physically fit and healthy is more important than anything else.

And that it is the incidental contacts that matter most - that was weird. Being nice to the waitress, being pleasant to the mailman, improves quality of life?

Maybe it is all a big con and they are just trying to reverse the current trend of attack-on-sight the world seems to be moving towards

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Diova I wish you did spend more time on here so if it is something you could think of as medicine, good for your long-term health, you should

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Wen, funny, people imply that about me sometimes too.

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Harb you know full well I adore you and would push to the front of the queue if I thought it would do me any good.

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Harbal that comment hadn't been aimed at you you aren't venomous

You are often in the front line against the venomous

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Harb, ridding the system of venom is priceless

Getting into the habit of storing venom for the fun of releasing it is probably where it starts become counterproductive. Seeing a bit much of that online at times

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Molly, I'm rather counting on it, to be honest

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Robby, teach me?

I actually have lots of nouns and am starting to bring in occasional verbs and agree with you that those who live in a country do need to make the effort. I can discuss the weather (as a true Brit, I mastered words like calor, frio, etc, automatically) and order coffee and limp through questions but the idea of actually sociably chatting, that's a way off yet. Fortunately that doesn't bother the Spanish much, they chatter away happily and at length and pat me forgivingly on the cheek when I can't answer.

Plus there are, usually, my students, so one way and the other I do get some interaction, and from now on I will tell myself how much good it's doing me into the bargain



Nothing beats real life, but I can say more complicated things on a blog than I can, currently, manage in real life and we may joke about CS being a virtual coffee shop but it's a virtual coffee shop with some health benefits and who knew?

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Molly, remember a previous blog, the way to duck Alzheimers is social interaction, diet, exercise and also a little bit of smoking

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Mimi, you will live forever

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Hey, Ysa, and yup it was weird that the small talk, so to speak, turns out to be more important than the major people in our lives

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Harbal in my case it has to be my fallback. Said so in my blog. Also said I am now more motivated to learn to speak a language which still sounds like angry aliens barking

Or maybe I will have to move. Whichever proves easier.

That's enough #HIC for one day for me

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Longevity - no.

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Merc, not at all, it was one of the top ten and don't shout at me, I exercise!

Not like you do but come on, very few people exercise like you do!

Jeremiah

Ys, yup, turned into neutral ground

Worse things can happen to blogs

Jeremiah

Funny thing, Wen, there are probably barely a dozen songs I would recognise from its opening chords and this was one

It's one of those songs that brings back an era, but I guess a very private era, built for one

Jeremiah

Crest, shoot me now.

It was a Friday joke.

It pancaked way, way more spectacularly than any joke blog I ever posted

I'd shut it down but some other good stuff cropped up which is a lot more worthwhile than a very weak stupid joke so

Jeremiah

Bear, thank you for being the single only person on topic