fiorenza Blog Comments (211)

RE: Hodgepodge

Oscar Wilde said "all art is quite useless" (now we see why!)

RE: Don't let the old man in. Not today.

I was born an old man and struggle to let the youth in, so I'm told (by old Italian men )

RE: Dignity

Getting old is no shame. He is still your father and whatever he's going through is not a loss of dignity, rather it's just the body coming to its own inevitable and natural end...

Sure he wouldn't want you to see him like that either but that is what you have to deal with.

No, it's not about the money and quality of life 'should' prevail. But you're getting his extended life and all you can do is look after him the best way you can.

He's still your Dad and he would have done the same for you if things had happened too soon.

All due respects to a man who sleeps for 22 hours a day, he's better off, -------

RE: Powerful song...even more so when teamed with this video

Touching and funny video (one that's poignant and enough to watch with it being a Neil Young song!), stay well,

RE: "AT THE WATER FALL"..(4)

It's a real shame and a culmination of events obviously contributed to his unhappiness towards the end...

All the same, it's a very modern day story for some people now and how ironic that you need a license to keep a dog but nothing to reproduce. And a nurturing nature from parents isn't guaranteed to any child.

You were the friend that he needed so don't feel so bad,

RE: My opinion on opinions

I like ears. The Italian pasta shape for ears is called orecchiette. You look like a lost and lonely ear-shaped pasta shape whom everyone wants to take care of!

Where's your friend Mollybaby gone?:

RE: My opinion on opinions

Hai proprio un bel paio di palle.

RE: My opinion on opinions

vaffanculo!

RE: "THE WAY IT WAS"

There’s a light in your eyes and there’s somebody in
It’s coming from your absolute strength within
Through all the highs, all the lows and plateaus
You only get where you want to be, from a place of anonymity
Then you can see what others can’t see
It’s never over ‘til it’s flown, so keep holding your own
Let the bad memories go, as best you can intone
There is a meaning and a reason for all your sorrow
The pain you feel today, will be the strength you feel tomorrow...

RE: "REMEMBERING"

Very sad news about your friend. I think it’s somehow disrespectful to look at someone when they are dead, even if some might say it gives them comfort or ‘closure’ whatever that is. When I lost my husband in a car crash back in 2015, I couldn’t face going to the hospital morgue to identify the body and if that makes me a coward, so be it! As he was badly burned anyway there would have been nothing the morticians could have done to make him look ‘normal’ and so I think just leave them alone in a closed coffin, that’s more than enough to see for the ones left behind.

Sometimes I think I should have seen the body (the police understood why I didn’t want to at the time) but then remind myself that it’s kinder for the mind to remember what the eye didn’t see.

RE: My parents were art collectors... well kinda!

At least the Billys will be holding their ends up!

RE: Hold on to your seats kiddies...

Go Man-Go!:

RE: "RAMBLIN MAN"..("RAMBLE ON")..(199)

What do you call a Roman with a cold?

RE: "RAMBLIN MAN"..("RAMBLE ON")..(199)

'If you open one door, another slams back in your face'

(He's not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.)

RE: "RAMBLIN MAN"..("RAMBLE ON")..(199)

"It"

RE: "RAMBLIN MAN"..("RAMBLE ON")..(199)

Internet dependence! we wouldn't be here now if it weren't for the Internet------

Now I'm irritating people from other countries, rather than just the neighbours!

Mr passeggiata! (Italian for ramble)

RE: manners

"Manners maketh Man"...

Thank you for a decent blog!

RE: Learning About Grownups Volume 1

So this is where strange men with smartphones end up?

RE: They’ll get you in the end

That's it! The only freedom we have these days is our own thoughts! You'll get used to being a smartphone owner I'm sure,

RE: I have TDS

"I'm just a resident lunatic who is convinced of my superiority. I get my kicks from reaching into my soiled diaper with my bare hands and smearing it everywhere. It's just my thing. "

That is funny!

RE: They’ll get you in the end

I understand. It's all going the same way with everyone's movements being tracked. No chance of a cheeky one in the pub then, unless you're delivering beer!

RE: a kind of magic

Hi Elegs, You are a mine of useful information - if I had the misfortune to be a car driver I'd test the toothpaste theory but instead will save some for the teeth!

RE: They’ll get you in the end

All I use is an old Nokia phone for texts and calls, anything else is using the laptop computer at home - there's no need to be available all the time. I don't understand why, with you being a driver, that a company issued smartphone is even necessary? I think they should be called stupidphones because they don't make anyone any smarter at all!

RE: "SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD"..("MICLEE"S 21st CENTURY")

Maybe it's a 'Friendsie'!?

Good pictures, some of them show up huge and my screen isn't big enough!

RE: Vaping...

It's your life, not your sister's or your parents! You don't need a dummy in your mouth!

RE: What would you say?

I agree with the person above - don't judge a book by its cover.

RE: My yearly physical examination...

Maybe you should give up the desk job and go walking and hitchhiking with one of your guitars? Throw away your iPhone, guzzle some whisky along the way and get properly legless!

RE: Why hug?

Hi Elegs,

Personally I love hugs, but only from close acquaintances or I get scared I might catch something!

I think everyone has their own 'zones' and we are each comfortable with different levels of touching and physical interaction. The closer we are emotionally, the more natural it feels to give the hugs but doing it to complete strangers - no way! It takes time to get to the natural hug stage for some which is understandable!

Some people are always slobbering over each other and it's so embarrassing! They're worse than footballers!

RE: "THE UNKNOWN"

Delete my comment again if you want, but for the living who are left behind, I think there are only the memories in our heads that we have of the deceased. I can't believe in the unbelievable!

I have read that some visions of dead relatives and a 'calling to the other side' can be experienced by people who are in comas and are under the influence of strong drugs that are keeping them alive. It's maybe the person's last connecting memory of the immediate family?

No explanation for some things. I know that once they're gone, they're gone. That's life! Or rather, death!

RE: I'm a SPAM magnet this week...

Are you really sure they're gone? Maybe they wanted to squeeze and sponge your areas?