Ten Forward Lounge - Miscellaneous General Chat & Welcome Thread

[AmbreP]

My older half-sister was an addict and when she went to the hospital with a brain aneurysm they blew her off and she later died. She had been clean a couple of years that time.

You have my sympathy and though I only have a physical disability....those of up with hidden disability/weaknesses have it the worst I think. She got the addictive personality and I got the health autoimmune disability. Both are difficult in thier own way.

I know someone who is not allergic to gluten but get migraines and in large enough doses can have aggressive almost psychotic episodes since he was in a car accident and has residual brain trauma. There is so little we really know.

Every day we survive is a victory., and every day is a new day with a chance of continued survival and hope/success.
But it get tiring, doesn't it?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Hey someone said hey hi to me online and used this as an emote

What does that mean?

 

[rredmond]

You hit the bullseye. Whatever you did, you nailed it.
As far as I know, it's all positive.

 

[TimmyWl]

Hello! I just dropped in to say that.

 

[think]

Welcome @TimmyWl you are revisiting and have been away? maybe well welcome good to have you

 

[TimmyWl]

Oh I come in and out. I used to post here all the time some years ago...

 

[rhubarbodendron]

indeed I remember us sharing a lounge. Welcome back! How have you been all this time and are you and your family ok?

 

[Spider]

You know you're on quarantine when the highlight of your week is going to the grocery store. (But I really needed that ice cream and strawberries. It's necessary for survival.)

You know you are on quarantine if you need a haircut but are to scared to go into a hair place.

You know you are on quarantine when masks have now become a fashion item and every store sells them.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

You know you are on quarantine if you need a haircut but are to scared to go into a hair place.

don't go. I've always had a weakness for men with long hair. Propably a side effect of growing up during the Hippie era =)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You know you're on quarantine when the highlight of your week is going to the grocery store.

I work in a grocery store...when this whole thing first dropped, we'd open at 6 AM and not ten minutes later we'd have all of our checklanes running and the lines would be halfway to the back of the store.

VERY eerie.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Has the situation normalized by now? I noticed that people in my town developed a tendency to go to the farmers market instead of grocery shops. It seems they feel more secure in an open space.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Has the situation normalized by now?

Pretty much, yeah. People don't seem to be panicking anymore. The only thing that's really different now is that everybody in my store (workers and customers alike) has to wear a mask...although there are always a few "covidiots" who balk at that .

The funny thing is, I never used to think that my job was particularly important. Yeah, yeah, we sell groceries, big deal. But now that this covid crap has taken a hammer to the economy and put so many people out of work... I know how damn lucky I am to even still HAVE a job.

 

[JD]

Moved post to a different thread.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

the crows here have learned by observation that cars crack acorns, nuts and small animals. Now if you drive through the town, you get pelted with all sorts of shelled fruit and big snails by the birds. Most crows have a good aim and hit the road before the tyres but I had 3 snails hurled by beginners sticking to the windshield last Thursday

I've heard of such behaviour by crows and ravens from fellow biologists in Britain and France. Do the birds in your respective regions use humans as nutcrackers, too?

 

[Delta Vega]

We have rather aggressive Urban Gulls here
No one is safe with a bag of chips or an ice cream
The bastards

 

[rhubarbodendron]

we had gulls at my school. We'd throw bits of bread from the window and they'd catch them in the air. They were too shy to snatch them directly from us, though.
In my town, we have gulls and crows searching the rubbish bins, but both keep several meters distance to humans. I've been working on befriending the crows for years but they remain very shy. They can recognize individual humans but it seems they get (illegaly) hunted so much that they find it safer to simply distrust everyone.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

We have rather aggressive Urban Gulls here

So does Cardassia.

I'll see myself out...

 

[rhubarbodendron]

^that's a reference I don't get. Can you explain, please?

 

[Avro Arrow]

^that's a reference I don't get. Can you explain, please?

I think it's just because "Gul" is the equivalent rank to "Captain" in the Cardassian military. (Gul Dukat, Gul Evek, etc.). Just a play on words.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Ah, now I get it Thank you!