It's easy to keep it, or its equivalent, maybe even make a profit on it......
You ask the bank to put everything that is in your account into high risk overnight investments. I know for a fact that they yield about 30%-50% returns, (the bank effectively double your money and give you half), for I have done it years ago.
At the end of the week you give the bank its money back and keep the profits.....
I have quit for long periods, many times, over the years, and always use the same methods.
I get rid of all reminders in the house that I ever smoked. (Clean and put away ashtrays, lighters, matches).
Tell friends not to come over if they smoke, for a few weeks at least. (Even smelling it off their clothes is a reminder).
Sit in a different chair.
Take up a hobby to keep your hands occupied.
Eat different food and sit at the table to eat it.
Use a different drink, (most people smoke with coffee or tea).
Do not go near any shops or places you can buy ciggies.
Have a substitute ready. (I use nicorette pastilles, (the strongest they have), one the first day every 5 hours or so, then half of one next day then a quarter in the side of my mouth when I feel the urge and so on until I don't need them by about the 5th day).
I sometimes even spend that first week in the house, so I won't be tempted to visit friends who smoke, (to cheat), or buy some in a shop I pass.
When the urge strikes, it is good to take a deep breath, because when you smoke, that first pull is a deep breath, and it tricks your body into thinking it got something that it didn't, ie: nicotine.
If the urge is realy bad and nothing else works, then sugar will do the trick. Any sugar filled bar or drink will get you past that longing until you can handle it again.
The point I was making is that the person was writing in text shorthand, which is not indiginous to any part of Ireland, but is a worldwide practice.
People whose second language is English often use it because although they may be able to speak a language quite well, they are not always able to write it, so use text language instead.
Many of the people whose address is Ireland are not always from this country, or not Irish by lineage or heritage, no matter where they live in the country nowadays, so cannot be lumped as Irish either.
There can be people in the same household, never mind the same area whose knowledge and use of a language differs, so not fair nor right categorising people from a particular place as being ignorant.
Yeah, maybe it has to do with the planet I live on, but I have never had any problems saying what needed to be said to anyone, at any time, in any circumstances, and then taking what gets thrown back. As you probably noticed, I'm an advocate of plain speaking, and dealing with things out in the open.
If I saw someone who looked like they were in need of a break, I'd just say it to them. They can only say no, or be pissed off for a bit. Nothing lost, maybe something gained if they agreed...
I find the trouble with very many people today, with their politeness, and manners, and political correctness, is that they spend so much time thinking about things and avoiding unpleasantness, that they don't actually get anything done.
The whole thing just ends up as a prolonged avoidance technique.....
Well people can't always agree, and sometimes that gets out of hand, or they agree to differ and the thread fades into obscurity.
Individuals experiences, influences, educational background and interests will inevitably differ but the key to a good thread, I believe, is in being able to talk to all kinds of people on all kinds of levels.........
(Philosophy doesn't always have to be talked about in the abstract, or in pure terminology. In fact many more people would be interested in it, and even contribute a little to the subject, if it was introduced in practical everyday terms, maybe with examples. It would certainly make for a more successful thread.)
Just wondering if you are elitist or chauvanist or something like that? The explaination for the question is in the amount of space your replies take up, to men as opposed to women......
No accounting for what crosses my mind sometimes.........
They can be jailed for not acting in the best interests of the child, (according to the health authorities).
I got past it by threatening exposure and by asking them to sign a form stating that they were 100% certain that they were not going to harm my child in any way by vaccinating.
I told them that I was willing for them to vaccinate under those circumstances so I was, in fact, not refusing treatment.
I have only spoken to two men on here in weeks and I think I have now justified at least one man's notion that women my age bore him to tears.
When that happens either way, we just mail less and less until it just doesn't happen any more.
I was thinking only this morning that I either have to leave the site, or kill the notion of ever finding anyone, because there are only maybe one or two men on here that interest me in that way at all, and I know I don't interest them.... In fact men my age on here are getting very scarce, (the ones that aren't scammers, that is).
Speaking of which, all the joy has gone out of even getting mail or having a profile looked at here too, because it is no fun having to disect every word and sentence for clues as to whether it is one of our new breed of scammers........
I don't know about it being right or wrong. It is just the way I think at this particular time...
I tried to give it a different scenario, like a mother with a baby who was starving. (I used Africa and India as examples in my head). Does she steal from the table of a rich man? It is the same thing........ No easy solutions and many scenarios...
There are many angles for looking at it, psychological, experiential, social, moral, ethical, etc., and like the OP said, no right or wrong answers. Each person answers according to their own standards..
The pharmacist is just doing what legalised drug dealers do. He is making as much money from selling drugs as he can. It is his business and livlihood.
The man whose wife is ill, can only manage to raise half the money asked, because he cannot provide adequately for his family. He has to take responsibility for that, and buy what medicine he can, within the law. What he can't provide, he can't provide. He should accept responsibility for that.
It is not the pharmacist's fault that the man cannot afford the drugs. Life happens. The man pleaded and begged and obviously discussed this with the pharmacist, so he did what he could. His concience should have been clear.
The pharmacist was being fair in that he treats all people equally. He doesn't find any one person more or less sick or in need of drugs than any other. His criteria is that if you can pay for them, you can have them.
The man should not, in my opinion, have stolen the drugs. He acted according to his concience, which was crazy with emotion and therefore not rational. He was thinking that he had a sense of entitlement that other's did not. He was blaming the pharmacist for his own and his wife's dilemma, and his own inadequacies, to justify breaking the law. He was showing no moral or social concience...
What was going to happen if his wife got better, this time, and he hadn't got caught? People are gong to die...of something..... What if it was TB next time, or AIDS, or a Stroke? Was he going to feel entitled to go out and steal again, over and over?
Was her life, and his need to keep her with him, more important than other people's needs or society as a whole? What would justify his entitlement over everyone else's?
Nothing would in my book...........
My answer was, that he should not have done it because his concience should have bothered him............
My specs are bi-focal and I wear gas permeable lenses from time to time. They last about two years and a very comfortable. I also have an astigmatism in one eye.
I was told that the gas permeable (hard lenses) would be best for my particular problem, but that I would still have to wear glasses on top of them for reading. That might be the case with you too.
If your blurriness is only happening up close or when reading, then it is because the lenses can't be bi-focal, because your eyesight is too far gone for a lens to cover near and far sightedness.
Soft lenses, disposable ones, tend to not be as good for more severe eye problems, but then your optician should have told you that already...
If youare having any problems at all with lenses, it is imperative that you go back and discuss solutions with your optician...
I don't believe I have any real fears, except maybe like Bentlee said, fear itself, being afraid with no real cause. The fight or flight response working overtime because of tiredness or low blood sugars, or fed by the media, or whatever...
If we think about it, in western society, we actaully have very little to be fearful about. Very few things are actually life threatening. A mouse running across the floor or a spider in the bath won't usually kill us.
So many precautions are put in place for our safety in everday living, that is is actually difficult to find anything to really be afraid of , except the idea of being afraid, which is what the media are good for...
High powered business people know that if we feel scared, we buy more, we comfort eat, we make ourselves feel good by buying new clothes or giving ourselves a holiday, or a new car, or go out and involve ourselves in a leisure activity, whether we can afford it or not.
So, without knowing it, most of the time, people play the games set up by powerful people in charge of the media, designed to make us feel scared, just enough to line their pockets...
In more primitive cultures, like people living in rainforests and such, people there live every day with very real threats to their lives, such as huge snakes, spiders, disease, and often a lack of decent food. Difference between them and us is that they have no media influence, and most of them have very few, if any fears, and lead happy and productive lives...
Barcelona end of September for my birthday, staying a couple of weeks, to see my daughter. Off to Kiev end of October to see my son. Spain again in November for a few weeks. Really looking forward to the break.
My daughter's boyfriend had that problem too. It is how I know. He works for advertising companies. In fact he did the last 7up add for cinema and tv, the animation parts, and he gets really well paid for what he does, but he used to have great trouble getting girlfriends when he told them he drew for a living.
I think you are better off without those people because most likely they were thinking about your supposed bank balance, and maybe they thought you didn't make much money, or even make regular money doing what you do.
I know differently, being an artist myself and having 3 family members who are artists too.
Just go on telling people that you draw, but see it as a positive thing if they don't chat to you any more, because you will know then that you have just got rid of an ignorant woman who is only interested in what you earn, and not who you are...
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RE: What good can older "senior" folks (55+) do to help & contribute?
Well said.......