There are wide variables with everything. The Vax will take a couple of years to become a Thalidomide type problem. before then there will be a new excuse. I always go withe earliest first reports. that's when everything slips through the cracks, before damage control can hit. As far as Asians, stay away from Chinese and koreans. They like the bling too much. It's a culture thing. Thai, Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian so on. Much more respect and much fewer greedy desires. Hispanic women from certain cultures will accept the same kind of relationship as Muslims and Africans. I'm not insulting anyone here, just observing.
His birthplace doesn’t mean Patrick was a Brit, however—at least not technically. During his lifetime the British Isles were occupied by the Romans, a group that included Patrick’s parents and thus the saint himself. It is unknown whether his family—thought to have been part of the Roman aristocracy—was of indigenous Celtic descent or hailed from modern-day Italy. When Patrick penned the two surviving documents attributed to him, he wrote in Latin and signed his name “Patricius,” but according to some accounts he was born Maewyn Succat.
"In 1968, while performing at HemisFair, Erickson began speaking gibberish. He was soon diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received electroconvulsive therapy.
The Elevators were vocal proponents of marijuana and psychedelic drug use, and were subject to extra attention from law enforcement agencies. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of a single marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a potential ten-year incarceration, Erickson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital in Rusk, Texas, where he was subjected to more electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972. During his time at Rusk, he continued writing songs and poetry. Family and friends managed to smuggle out some of these poems and, in 1972, self published the book Openers, intending to use the proceeds to hire a lawyer. (Various sources claim approximately 1,000 copies of Openers were printed; how many copies were actually sold remains unknown.) Six tracks from the 1999 Erickson collection Never Say Goodbye were also recorded during his time at Rusk. "
A few years ago I was on a financial site and the guys wife died. When it was time he used a matchmaker for financial and personal interest reasons. A few months later he met the woman he would marry.
Between posts on the forums hit the international match section. Post to five to ten daily. Dating is a game of odds anyway. If not higher a Matchmaker.
foreign women are what you look for. Traditional values and usually have helped support families. Ones with children mean you have someone to rely on when you get older. Just keep them away from mainstream culture and they turn out ok. Find a "Tiger Mom" if you can.
There are sheep and there are odds players. You sound as if you played the odds. Every vaxed person most likely will not be killed by the vax and there were different versions in different nations. mainly it is the MRNA ones which look to be a problem. I'm not against vaccines and if I were going to a third world country I damned well want all those shots. But for crap like the Flu I go with natural immunity. Trump was the one who rushed the vax and the companies made special non liability agreements with most nations regarding the roll out. Meanwhile the drugs that were attacked as being useless are now accepted as being pretty useful. Unfortunately they were WAY cheaper than the vax was, so not enough profit.
Alligators are faster on land. Run zig zag, or serpentine if anyone recalls the quote from the original Peter falk Allan Arkin movie.
I saw an Aussie sign warning about Crocodiles and it said if you hear them you are already dead. Australia where everything from plants to lizards want to kill you.
Imagine the balmy summer air of Finland and luscious grapes hanging in clumps from their prospering vines in a northerly vineyard. Sound a bit farcical? It gets better, including an almost biblical plague of grasshoppers, magic chanting, and the man who saves all of the wine, Saint Urho. Because in Finns’ book, whoever saves the drink of the vine, might as well be a saint. The Finnish Saint Who Saved Wine
So, who is this Urho guy and how exactly how did he save wine? As legend has it, hordes of hungry grasshoppers infested Finland and began to devour every grape in the vineyards. Enter St. Urho, a man towering over 7’ tall and apparently acquiring his strength from sour milk and fish soup (we’ll stick with the wine, right!? Yikes!). However, it seems there was some magic to the sour milk and fish soup, as Urho was known for his giant, booming voice. This booming voice would be the instrument of grasshopper demise!
We wouldn’t go as far as to say that St. Urho nicely asked the grasshoppers to skedaddle, but his chants of, “Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen”, (translates roughly to “Grasshopper, Grasshopper, Go away”) isn’t exactly the most threatening. Nevertheless, the grasshoppers fled to some other country’s crop and thus wine in Finland was saved!
Debatably the most interesting part of this tale is that the legend of St. Urho is said to have actually originated in a land far, far away from mother Finland. Accounts vary, but it sounds like some guy in Northern Minnesota in the 1950s needed an excuse to boast his Finnish heritage in light of his Irish counterparts and their celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, which conveniently falls the day after Saint Urho was said to have saved the Finns from a life without wine. Other details have since been added, embellishing the tale and character of Urho. Aside from saving a nation’s grape crop, this saintly Finn apparently also makes a divine strawberry rhubarb pie, but we digress.
Moral of the story? Us Finnish-Americans just wanted our own excuse to celebrate our heritage and perhaps to drink an Irish lad and lass under the table (we joke...sort of.) It just so happens that a large portion of us live in northern Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hence the aforementioned birthplace of Saint Urho, hero of the Finnish-American people.
St. Urho's Day takes place on March 16th every year. Celebrate the day by wearing green and purple while drinking your favorite wine! Share this
"An alligator, or just gator, is a large reptile in the Crocodilia order in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago.
The name "alligator" is probably an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for "the lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included allagarta and alagarto. "
We are all here for a relationship of some type. Once you remove vague terms like "SOULMATE' or "LOVE". What are he key points of the relationship we all seek? Like emotional support, or strong extended family, or care for me when I'm older. The ACTUAL effects of every relationship. The real obvious ones not the illusion. Thank You. PS How many are uncertain if they really want to have another live in partner, instead of a friend?
Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings. The term "dude" may have derived from the 18th-century word "doodle", as in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
In the popular press of the 1880s and 1890s, "dude" was a new word for "dandy"—an "extremely well-dressed male", a man who paid particular importance to his appearance. The café society and Bright Young Things of the late 1800s and early 1900s were populated with dudes. Young men of leisure vied to show off their wardrobes. The best known of this type is probably Evander Berry Wall, who was dubbed "King of the Dudes" in 1880s New York and maintained a reputation for sartorial splendor all his life. This meaning of the word, though rarely consciously known today, remains occasionally in some American slang, as in the phrase "all duded up" for getting dressed in fancy clothes. The word was used to refer to American Easterners, specifically referring to a man with "store-bought clothes". The word was used by cowboys to unfavorably refer to the city dwellers.
A variation of this was a "well-dressed man who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city". In The Home and Farm Manual (1883), author Jonathan Periam used the term "dude" several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant but ostentatious man from the city.[citation needed]
The implication of an individual who is unfamiliar with the demands of life outside of urban settings gave rise to the definition of dude as a "city slicker", or "an Easterner in the West". Thus "dude" was used to describe the wealthy men of the expansion of the United States during the 19th century by ranch-and-homestead-bound settlers of the American Old West. This use is reflected in the dude ranch, a guest ranch catering to urbanites seeking more rural experiences. Dude ranches began to appear in the American West in the early 20th century, for wealthy Easterners who came to experience the "cowboy life". The implicit contrast is with those persons accustomed to a given frontier, agricultural, mining, or other rural setting. This usage of "dude" was still in use in the 1950s in America, as a word for a tourist—of either gender—who attempts to dress like the local culture but fails. An inverse of these uses of "dude" would be the term "redneck," a contemporary American colloquialism referring to poor farmers and uneducated persons, which itself became pejorative, and is also still in use.
As the word gained popularity and reached the coasts of the U.S. and traveled between borders, variations of the slang began to pop up such as the female versions of dudette and dudines; however, they were short lived due to dude also gaining a neutral gender connotation and some linguists see the female versions as more artificial slang. The slang eventually had gradual decline in usage until the early to mid 20th century when other subcultures of the U.S. began using it more frequently while again deriving it from the type of dress and eventually using it as a descriptor for common male and sometimes female companions. Eventually, lower class schools with a greater mix of subcultures allowed the word to spread to almost all cultures and eventually up the class ladders to become common use in the U.S. By the late 20th to early 21st century, dude had gained the ability to be used in the form of expression, whether that be disappointment, excitement, or loving and it also widened to be able to refer to any general person no matter race, gender, or cult
Bars. You know men, and there are studies, act stupid around hot women. Real crazy women hid it well into the relationship. The woman I live with told me twenty five years later she had a breakdown in high school. With how she is now, I may have passed on her if she told me before we moved into together.
dude is kind of a guy thing and originally was a kind of show cowboy. Like Dude ranches for the weekend pretend cowboys. I'm just surprised it drifted into the female genre.
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RE: Why did Jack and Jill go up the Hill ?
Pain meds and boredom.Bad mix.
Only thing worse is pain meds large espresso and boredom.