HexagonKeySet Forum Posts (3,829)

RE: Who is Reality Winner?

But, but ... but LJ, if he were to east his own words he'd be consuming the sourest food on the planet !

RE: Don't Bear All !!

You're far too kind ... but unfortunately I'll have to disappoint you as I already have other plans for that day !

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RE: Trump vs Cuba

Often wondered if DT might do an Argentina ... and just tell RoTW

'Sorry, but we just is flat broke and so we ain't gonna pay y'all back after all!'

Argentina went on to make a decent recovery ...

RE: Dream Location?!

I'm curious ... may I ask 'Why Germany' for a summer home ... ancestral links or something else?

<<<< Could be the German beers of course

RE: Towering inferno in England

As Henry Ford once said

" Thinking is the hardest work - which is why so few people do much of it "

And that was around seventy years or more ago

RE: A look at the Chinese grand-plan-1 (a) the Belt and Road

Aye, and this was a deliberate act ... not one of the USA's regular 'unfortunate accidents' like bombing a hospital?

And it takes place long after Russia had warned the consequences of attacking it's Syrian Allies ...

Do the US have Ultra Short Memories?

Are they really so Intensely Stupid? or

Is the simple truth that they ARE Hellbent on a Direct Military Conflict with Russia ?

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

Aye, they say that 'Nostalgia is just looking back and thinking that things were better then than they are now ...'

But, even recognising that I saw those days 'through the eyes of a child' I still 90% suspect that the world was more 'people friendly' ... in general, much safer then than it is today ?

RE: Towering inferno in England

Appreciated, thank you.

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

Just thinking about that a bit more ... a Jumbo tanker could cross the Atlantic in around 12 hours, I don't know how long it would take to fill or maybe there would be advantage in flying it over pre-filled and directly to the incident site ?

Perhaps it sounds silly as the name was used in 'Thunderbirds series' but perhaps there actually could be some sort 'International Rescue Organisation' that could co-ordinate rapid response to such events?

Maybe it already exists ?

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

It certainly is ... NZ and Australia especially have seen many enormously destructive fires over the last few years and I'd never seen anything on the scale of that pic before today!

The incidence of fire seems to be on the increase globally ... Sometimes one cannot help but speculate in terms of 'cause and effect' as to 'why that might be occurring'

But for now here's hoping the people of Portugal, London and such other places are getting all that's humanly possibly by way of help and support.

RE: Towering inferno in England

I hear you ... but IMHO 'art therapy' and many others things become useful 'later on'

Kids ARE 'younger' but they are also extremely sensitive and while they may not be able to articulate as well as an adult can they 'know stuff' just as we do, in their own ways.

Imagine that YOU have lost a very close friend, or recall a time when you did ... and now imagine that some ( undoubtedly well meaning) individual offers you crayons and an adult colouring book 'as a distraction' ?

Or perhaps they are less creative and press you to go dining and dancing 'too soon' ... by that I mean 'this soon' before the bodies are recovered, before the funerals have taken place?

My best guess is that that idea is not going to sit well with you?

Children, like adults, also need to be 'allowed to experience their grief' and when that happens with support in a loving, compassionate (and not necessarily formalised therapy setting) they understand differently.

I've too many times seen 'armies of therapists' descend upon schools after a suicide of a student, death of a loved teacher in accident and be coerced into taking part in sessions they neither wanted or needed.

'Effective therapy' of any kind only occurs when the participants are willing ...

You can look at the abject failure of Court imposed 'Anger Management Treatment' programmes to see the reality of that!

( and sure, of course other opinions exist and that's the value of expression and debate ... sometimes it seems necessary to 'state' that what I write is 'my opinion' derived from my own life and experience - I'm not claiming 'rightness, infallibility or indeed anything else' in these threads! )

Sometimes we debate these things 'from afar' and lose track of the very real suffering of those who are directly or closely involved ... GB those people and let's keep them in our prayers.

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

PMSL and on the floor ... and that's AT you, not with you!


Of course it's not what you posted ... it's my REPLY to what you posted Noddy!

'proof' ... sure it is ... in the same dimension of nonsense that you call " 'proof' that religion is bad" in your bigotted rantings elsewhere

You're demented ... and hoping to provoke a flame reaction to get people banned ?

Dream on loser !

<<< No Beer for you Mr Bobblehead

RE: Towering inferno in England

Awesome ... Let the rallying cry be 'Crayons' ... Crayons are The Answer

What bunch of clowns thinks that 'art therapy' in the immediate aftermath of an event like this is any sort of appropriate course of action ?

Rolls eyes and heads to bed

Night all !

One of the 'measures' of 'good' mental healthy is said to be 'tolerance' that's the ability to

A variation on Yac-o-Strat 3 and compounded by Yac-o-Strat 4 and Yac-o-Strat 5 dismiss the other person as ignorant and just try to make out they're wrong

I suppose next you'll send in your Rusty Rannabe Keyboard Warriors to flame me here and in my pm box

RE: How do you cooooooooool down...

LOL ... I have a cold shower every morning and it's a n extra blast when it's freezing outside !

But few people that I know ( other than Nordics and Russians ) ever seem to understand the pure raw natural pleasure that it brings !!!


<<< ice cold beer for you !!!

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

As it happens I had great respect for my late father ... he was was an intelligent, likeable man and I was moved but not surprised by the number who attended his funeral 30 years ago. In fact, I could go so far as to say that he was everything that you are not and could never even aspire to be.

I hope that one day you might grow up and develop for yourself some attractive human and humane character traits ... I can hope for that for you, but I'm certainly not going to try holding my breath while it happens!

Seeing you whine about living on a miserable 140 Euros a day and making cheap political points off the back of a human disaster ... wonders what stinking rotteneffluent went into your gene pool.

RE: TRAGIC FIRE IN PORTUGAL.

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I have no ideas as how little you charge to (quote you) take it up the Jaxi so I'm not at liberty to perform any calculations !

BUT having said that ... the UK Financial Times is generally a reliable source for news and it reports that a combination of extremely dry weather and a lightning storm are reported to be the causes ...





Maybe though you could allow a little time for compassion before hitting the button labelled 'exploit a disaster for political point scoring' ?

Kindest thought and compassion to those in Portugal who have suffered injuries and the loss of life of their loved ones.

RE: Don't Bear All !!

You can choose ...

Dinner and 'afters' ( nudge nudge nudge wink wink ) with Pedro, Onenote or Yubbabubba !

Yer nowhere need bad enough to suffer a night out with me :-)

RE: THEY ARE COMING AFTER WHITE AMERICA NEXT

Seriously though ... it ( Eisenhower's speech) makes for one hell of a good read and remarkably few Americans have ever looked at it!

If Dwight E looks down from heaven now he must be wring his hands and biting his tongue to not say 'Told you what would happen ... but y'all would NOT listen, and now that you're in The Swamp y'all are fighting The Man who want's to drain it to get y'all outta the mire !

Whats a Good Swiss beer ... does such a thing exists or do you only do chocolate, banks and gnomes ?

RE: Don't Bear All !!

Thanks for your wisdom ... shame that yer only sixty years late in delivering it !!!!

If only y'd said sooner I;d have been more careful ..

RE: THEY ARE COMING AFTER WHITE AMERICA NEXT

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I just cannot / will not do the sanguinefarious thing and force eight pages of c n p on y'all !

RE: THEY ARE COMING AFTER WHITE AMERICA NEXT

I know, I know ... it's terribly tedious of me to (yet again) point out thet President Ddwight Eisenhower warned all Americans of what was coming if they failed to keep a steady eye on their politicians and allowed them to be bought by industrialists!

for those who can't find it themselves ( and at risk of looking like sanguinefrarious )

My fellow Americans:
Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.

My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.

In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
II.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
III.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.


Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle - with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.

Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.

RE: Don't Bear All !!

There is a rotund, white bearded man ( always wears a red suit) who sees my therapist in the hour before I do.

Sometimes we talk a little when he comes out and before I go in.

He told me that he has a fear of crawling down small chimneys on Christmas Eve

It seems he's only one in the world to suffer santaclaustrophobia...

RE: A look at the Chinese grand-plan-1 (a) the Belt and Road

Historically the Chinese have been a people who have always looked far ahead and played 'the long game' whereas US influence upon the west has been to encourage / demand the shortest of short term views ... eat a huge huge breakfast as you might not live until lunch time ( and ignore that obesity will undoubtedly shorten the lifespans of all )

One of the 'measures' of 'good' mental healthy is said to be 'tolerance' that's the ability to

Are mental health systems loaded ... ie designed to 'get you in through the door'

Overheard at a party

Man ... so, how do you shrinks decide who's in need of admission ?

Shrink ... we fill a bath with water and offer the person a teaspoon, a table spoon, a jug, a bucket and a large sponge with which to empty the bath.

Man And then ...

Shrink, smiling slyly, ... Well, which would you choose ?

Man ... I guess the bucket it's obviously faster?

Shrink ' Then, would you like a private room or to share with another patient?
A person not in need of our professional care would simply pull the plug !

RE: SINGLEDOM...do you think it becomes CHRONIC ... after

I suspect poor ole YubbaBubba has many such days and ( IMHO) there's no right or wring thing to do, nor indeed any need to 'do' anything nor to 'refrain from' doing anything ... and that applies to here too!

" To hide or not to hide a post ... that is The Question"

Sorry Bill S !!!

:-)

My own preference, and this may not suit others, is that I have a sense of humour so tend to be laughing at those who try to have a go ...

RE: Don't Bear All !!

Or would you be sailing across an ocean to get to an a hole ;-)

RE: Don't Bear All !!

Oft confused

To bare all ... is to reveal one's body heart and / or soul

To as you to 'bear with me' is to to ask for patience ... often said by telephonist 'If you can just bear with me I'll put out a call for them...'

It causes instant confusion if you reply to that with " sure ... just my shirt or you want all my clothes off'

Bear / bare

RE: Dream Location?!

Pretty much 'wherever I am I'm happiest' and if I were to find that 'where I was' was somehow impinging on that ... I'd move on ...

Maybe you can re-organise how you work ... would tele-commuting be an option for you ?

RE: How do you cooooooooool down...

Been a very long time since that happened ... cucumber juiced with a big handful of mint leaves is awesome on a hot day though

:-)