BLOGS........?

Hoi Venere.

Hey, that would be MOST interesting! DO IT!
You can create a Google account in about 2 minutes, and its free.

BLOGS........?

I would say, get him doing his own blog? It would be interesting for him, give him experience, and it`s SO nice to see how many people have read what you`ve written ... and you can also see where they come from, what sites, what countries ...... Real good encouragement.

Tis VERY difficult for a new author to just get a book published.
So that would be a route for him to follow.

RE: How is your day today?

We don`t even do that here in Swissyland! In case there`s somebody walking past or a car or bicycle comes whizzing along, or a cat strolling ......

Pisses me off, actually, always having to reverse into yard!

But better than hitting someone/thing.....!

RE: Birthday Time...........

Ja, I feel the same ... except I`m a bit older than you .... so I shudder when I think of turning ... nah, not even going to SAY it! .....

Today my son was getting upset over his paunch ..... and I reminded him he is at that age .... pushing 40 .... when paunchy begins ....rolling on the floor laughing ..... and he better start eating and excercising like his Mama does ...... I just got a horrified look!....grin

...And I`m pushing 30 years more than him!

RE: How is your day today?

Tomboygirl .... now that was NOT a clever thing to do! Was the car travelling..?... or parked across the street?

Oh dear .... you gotta pay for their repairs?

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Many rivers to cross Zambi....




take time-out ... and heal yourself!
We all just people, you know, living on the same planet....

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Oh I am laughing.

That is why I post what I do.

Tis only you, my dear fellow, who is trying SO hard to imagine that all humans look alike, think alike, act alike.

We do not, you know ... we are all different colours, shapes, sizes, and cultures and come from vastly different backgrounds.

No matter how you try to look inside another person, you can never know what is really inside another person. You can only know what is inside of yourself.

Why is it so difficult for you to accept YOURSELF?

Everyone here tries to accept you, but you make yourself truly obnoxious ....... and then you go off and sulk .... cause we dont bow down and worship your self-esteem?

BLOGS........?

Hoi Tomboygirl.....

Ja, it was all news to me too.

I been "writing" for years and years .... and I have all these old dusty manuscripts stuffed in drawers ....and never knew what to do with them.....

And then my one son, unfortunately, inherited the writing bug from me .... and he has written a book.

And then he investigated the possibilites of getting it published ... But it seems that authors, these days, have to "sell themselves" ..... be able to prove to publishers that they have a reading audience........

And, at one of our kitchen conferences, he enlightened me about Blog writing. He has a blog site, and he writes regularly, and is developing an audience ....... and one day he will approach a publisher with proof of his reading audience. .......... while inbetween he writes his second book ... and one day he will be published ... Meanwhile he writes about his experiences living here in Switzerland. (I will divulge his Blog site later, you may enjoy his style of writing?).....

So, now, I am trying to build up my own courage to "go public" .... and dipping my toes into this world of Blogs.

I really would like to retire from doing the laundry for Credit Suisse!

(Funny thing .... he, my son, refers to "my forum" CS as Credit Suisse ...hahhaaaaaa ... CS!?

I practice on the blog site here ..... and edit it for the Google Site ... sorry to make it boring for you.drinking

BLOGS........?

Ahhh thanks Charlie! I love you dearlybatting

Oooohhh weeeeeeeee ..... somebodies has read MY BLOG!

I feel like a kid who just managed to make the swing swing!

Probably gonna make a fool of myself ... but Im so old, what the hell...... better than getting drunk and dancing on a table and smashing all the glasses in the restaurant and accosting old men and pulling their swissy moustaches.......drinking

RE: How is your day today?

Doctors not on duty cause its a Boys Rifle-Shooting Championship?!

Holy maloney ...... all the doctors having to attend all that wild west shooting by little boys!

PS. OUR doctor has gone on holiday .... just when we needing some medication for a kid going to Italy this week ..... to Meisterschaft Flag Football .... Hop Swissy or whatever they call themselves ..... Swuiss ..Suisse....Schweiz ....Swuuiiiiizzz.....
confused grin

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Aaaahhhhh .... and THIS one!

"Two cultures seem to intermingle in a fascinating
ambiguous embrace only to so that each can inflict
on the other a more visible denial".

(by Michel Leires, Fréle Brut)

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

I got a draw where I keep my most favourite pieces of Poetry ...... they always come in useful to remind me of some things in life.

And a pertinent one at this moment is:

...oOo.......

"If you dont know the kind of person I am
and I dont know the kind of person you are ....
a pattern others made may prevail in the world...
and following the wrong god home, we may miss our star"
...oOo.......

and this one....:

"Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features
and into the true heart of being,
fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend,
than we are unalike".


Above poetic quotes from "The Healing Wisdom of Africa"
by Malidoma Patrice Somé

RE: Have you

Yes ... .music can be quite uncanny!

Whenever something really Magic happens in my life ..... there`s a certain song that seems to suddenly be on the radio ... the same song ....... Cant remember it offhand .. the title always evades me, but I shall seek it out .. and TRY to remember it.

Certainaly is uncanny how THAT song is played!...at just THAT moment!

Great thread Josi! .......

BLOGS........?

Oh yes, good idea!

I`ve never gotten to the Facebook thing ......... I tried it, but it got too scary ....... being bombarded with odd-sods wanting to be "friends" ... and I`m rather fussy about who my friends are......

Nah ..... I just been investigating some stuff .... and was told one HAS to blog, before other things will be revealed in the mystic space of ether surrounding this planet.......

I`m just .. at the moment ..... messing about with stuff like that ... trying to educate myself.drinking

Kitchen Items word game .. hahahahaaaa.....

Hahahaa ..... yeah.... I had to back-read a few pages to get un-confused!

We gonna do the P to death ...cause Q in the kitchen is going to be a rather scarce one, huh?

more P`s....?

Pfeffer steaks

RE: How is your day today?

Well, I super-cleaned the one toilet and that was enough for me for a Monday morning .... and then decided to devote the rest of the day searching for my URl I created last week for my feeble attempts at blogging .....

..... and a friend arrived to take me with her to do some shopping ..... to buy some eggs .....


..... and I ended up the OTHER side of Zurich .... after having bought a new pair of black skinny leg jeans, a lovely new blouse for only Sfr3 (!) .....a bargain cannot be resisted....... and then I remembered my bedside lamp was broken and so I bought a new one of those .....after traipsing thru 4 levels of Ikea! and getting sore feet.....

... and when I came home I discovered that the old one just needed a news FUSE! I never knew lamps had fuses!confused ... after spending Sfr10 on a new GLOBE ... that did not work!

RE: STIGMA AND THE SINGLETON ..

I dunno if you can call it a "stigma", as such.......?

I do know, in the BBD (Before Boyfriend Days) ...... I would get the remark ..."You are always alone" .......confused

So, now I have my revenge ...... Now I got the smug look ...hahahaaaaa.....

Nothing nicer than to have someone come looking for me when I`m cleaning up the kitchen during a party ......or doing other necessary things, that I used to do in the BBD times....grin ...without anyone even noticing my absence!

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Ja!thumbs up

I just love how all their oil is going up in explosions! So now they HAVE to go claim other countries oil!

Did they forget to renovate their oil pipes, while gallivanting all over the world fighting wars? ..... reminds me of greedy children, stuffing sweets into their pockets and mouths....

Now they are gonna mess up the Arctic with oil?

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Yes, I agree, again.

The Media. Haaa! Everyone is taught to think ...by the media ... TV, newspapers, radio, etc......

In South Africa, we were brainwashed by the old government .... we believed what they said. And later...? .... Yeah, I found, for instance, that Rev.Desmond Tutu was not a "bad" person.

Even Nelson Mandela .. can you believe it?... He was supposed to be a "bad" person!

It is IMPOSSIBLE for a politician to remain true to their words ... they enjoy the money too much!

Wars are fought for GAIN. Poopsegal about the men doing the fighting.

RE: Are woman mean?

I love this thread!

I have to share a story with you all!

I just discovered a MAIN reason WHY so many men have lower back pain and Sciatic nerve pain!

It is because of their Wallet that they carry in their back pocket!

Serious!

I just had a friend who went thru extensive medical examinations for excrutiating Sciatic Nerve pain ... blood tests .....etc etc etc ... till the doctor asked *What is in your back pocket?* ..... Wallet.....

"Do you drive a lot?" ....... "Yes". Remove wallet .... no more back pain!

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Oh wow ... I am growing old! I keep having to repeat myself!

Ok, now listen everyone, and I shall tell you WHY minarets are important to Muslim worship places.......

In the olden days, out in the deserts of Saudi and those other places in deserts where Islam was begun ....... the usual,(just like any village)place of centre was the Place of Worship.

And around the place of Worship was the mud and sand houses and camels, and Palm trees, and water ......and travellers.....

So the Mosque (place of worship) would get very hot with all those people breathing in a confined space at prayer times (5 times a day).

And so the Immam(Priest) invented a tower, and hung wet sheets in tower, so hot air passing thru would get cooled down thru wet sheets.

And the tower was a handy place for him to hang out and call everyone to prayer .. cause only priests knew the time for prayer .. holy men, ya know? they owned the only watch in town.....

And by the time the rabble gathered for prayer ... the mosque was cool ... from the wet sheets.....

And so the Tradition of having a Minaret was born.

Like Christians have a Clock Tower on their churches? ... They had an Immam who called, instead of ringing bells ....

Christians still have ringing bells. The Muslims Minarets still have a Caller. Except he has forgotten WHY he has a Minaret ...... them wet sheets to cool down the place for the crowd! Nowadays they have Air-Conditioning.

So ... it is just Traditional. Not serious.

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Nein, darl, it is called "utilization of all available space". Switzerland, if you look at a map ... is a VERY tiny country! AND it takes in the MOST asylum seekers out of all the EU countries ... pro rata.

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

Ahhhhh here is this South African living in Switzerland as an honoured guest of the Swiss government and I am called on, once again, to explain to the EU .......Why the Swiss do not want to build Minarets.....!

Well, if you ever visit Switzerland, if your bank account allows you that privelege ... you will see that there are enough minarets in Switzerland to satisfy everybody!

Everywhere you go you see minarets.

Why ... just the other day, walking out iin the farmlands ... THERE was a minaret! Sitting all lonely and ignored .... in the middle of a tiny little village!

All it needed was a .. what you call that guy?.... the one who stands in it and calls all the people to prayers? .... Well he could ... if he was calling in the hours allowed for noise.

If you make a noise anywhere before 7am, and between 12 and 1pm, and after 7pm on weekdays the Polizei will arrive and give you a big fine. And on weekends you allowed to make a noise until midnite on Saturday. And Sundays ALL noise is verboten! Sundays are just lovely silence, so you can sleep in peace till you feel like getting up and quietly eating some Bürchermuesli. And you can weed your garden, if you do it real quietly.

Switzerland is a VERY tiny land. All extraneous buildings need a VERY good excuse to be built.

Even when you drive you have to pull up RIGHT BEHIND the next car at a traffic light or else you are wasting space! The reason the roads are SO narrow! They designed for one car! ... but two can just squeeze past each other!.. if they are really careful!

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

I dont think Americans are Proud. I would call them more .... what...?... Arrogant.....? .. A little bit dumb about their health, and the health of this planet .... but certainly not proud. What have they got to be proud of?

RE: AMERICANS AND YET STILL PROUD

My African daughters are all in Africa! They love the sun too much!

Nein, you are not like me ... if you have not found anyone yet. I found someone! You can see us dancing in my profile......grin

Real world is a better place to find Someone4You ..... get out there and work your charm fella!cheers

RE: SOH ..

Ja, humour changes, depending on peoples moods, I think?

I used to have a friend who had a daughter, and this friend always made jokes about how hairy her daughter was ...... called her "Hairy Catherine" ..... she had masses of long dark hair on her head ... in front of her ears .... on her arms .. legs ..... moustache ...... etc etc ........

And then Hairy Catherine (I heard from her Mom) grew into a tall elegant young lady and became a beautician, overseas.

The friend and I met up at a social tea-party gathering ..... and I asked her "So, how is Hairy Catherine these days?" ....... and was met with a thundering silence and everyone looked at me like I was totally insane! It was REALY a thunderous silence! Mouths dropped open! I was SO RUDE!

The mother, my friend, never ever spoke to me again .. I had insulted her! (not a great loss actually, as "friends" go ..... but still..)

Ah well .... You can`t please All the people All the time!

I still am able to create thunderous silences .. quite unintentionally!

In Swiss German there is a lovely word that describes how upset you should get when people want to get upset over things ...... "POOPSEGAL".

RE: How is your day today?

grin Gosh .... Charlie is such a simple sort of man, dont you think? ..... He really needs a good woman to teach him a bit more about life .....

And to not be so afraid of ME! I allow him to have his sub-humour, he was just born that way, but he needs to temper it with a bit more ... what?.....well ....maybe a bit more thought before he lets his fingers walk on his keyboard...? Or at least before he hits the "send" button!grin

RE: Have a HUGE CRUSH on someone here in CS ....

Dear Maria,

I simply responded to your opening post. No sides were taken. I do not know the other person.

But later, it appears that somehow Charlie got involved ... and the poor man got hung from the rafters?! I think maybe you two just got crossed-lines and misunderstandings from how he writes ...? Personally I would rate his humour, on a 1 to 10 scale, at about 3. BUT for intelligence he is rated at about 9. Ten would be too high for him .. only I am a 10! Actualy I am more than a ten, but I try to not act TOO intelligent.

Something else with forums .......and meeting people .... NEVER disclose your actual private life here. Yes, it is good to find opinions, but keep the details private.

Soccer is over .... but lovely music!

Okay, so here is the Official Soccer SA World Cup song....



..................................

NOW .... listen to THIS version ...!.... AFTER the World Cup Soccer ....

Soccer is over .... but lovely music!

thumbs down ...to Tie me Kangaroo down ...!

thumbs up LOVE THE CHROME DADDIES!

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