Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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@TribbleCookie sometimes complaints are necessary. I always picture human psyche like one of these pressure cookers: if you can let off steam, you'll be ok. If the valve is blocked, sooner or later the pot will explode and people might get hurt in the process.
{{{{{{{Butters}}}}}}} I hope you'll be better really soon! Maybe you caught the nasty stomach flu virus that currently spreads over Europe and the US?
I sometimes deliberately use scents to get myself out of negative moods. Apple blossoms, freshly mown grass or freshly cut spruce twigs always cheer me up
Just read up the lyrics to Little Talks and while some passages are really depressing, I find others uplifting and comforting. Perhaps people sensitive to music subconsciousely go into a feedback loop and concentrate on those parts that fit their current mood best? That'd be an interesting research topic.
{{{{{{{Butters}}}}}}} I hope you'll be better really soon! Maybe you caught the nasty stomach flu virus that currently spreads over Europe and the US?
That's nothing to feel bad about. Many situations make people cry or sentimental or envigorate them - it always depends on what feelings are associated with that particular trigger. As a medium for attaching emotions to, music seems to be particularly "sticky" (or magnetic, if you'd prefere that image). I rarely listen to music just for this reason - the emotions associated with many tunes are simply too distracting.
I sometimes deliberately use scents to get myself out of negative moods. Apple blossoms, freshly mown grass or freshly cut spruce twigs always cheer me up
Just read up the lyrics to Little Talks and while some passages are really depressing, I find others uplifting and comforting. Perhaps people sensitive to music subconsciousely go into a feedback loop and concentrate on those parts that fit their current mood best? That'd be an interesting research topic.
I hope you’ll feel better soon!
Agreed, that’s how I see it too.
This is a good spot for complaining. I certainly do my fair share.
I hope it’s not that. I don’t cope at all well with things like that. When I worked on the wards I was prone to picking up the norovirus and the like, and that led to delerium. Horrid. I think this time is just the anxiety.
I think Little Talks just touches a really raw nerve. I was sobbing just thinking about this post. The song is so upbeat and positive, and it’s both sides of an intimate conversation, beautifully sung. It punches you twice.That's nothing to feel bad about. Many situations make people cry or sentimental or envigorate them - it always depends on what feelings are associated with that particular trigger. As a medium for attaching emotions to, music seems to be particularly "sticky" (or magnetic, if you'd prefere that image). I rarely listen to music just for this reason - the emotions associated with many tunes are simply too distracting.
I sometimes deliberately use scents to get myself out of negative moods. Apple blossoms, freshly mown grass or freshly cut spruce twigs always cheer me up
Just read up the lyrics to Little Talks and while some passages are really depressing, I find others uplifting and comforting. Perhaps people sensitive to music subconsciousely go into a feedback loop and concentrate on those parts that fit their current mood best? That'd be an interesting research topic.
There are other songs that put a lump in my throat, but nothing quite like that.
Thanks guys. It does feel good to let it out.
I feel the same way, @TribbleCookie. Most of the time when I'm posting. 
I think I figured out what that loud boom was yesterday afternoon. As far as I can tell, I believe it was the sound of a person dying.
The only thing I could find out that happened yesterday about that time was a person was loading a pallet of steel onto a flatbed truck about half a mile away from me and that pallet fell over onto him. It was LOUD and it was a BOOM-boom. Really loud boom and a second, less loud and shorter boom immediately afterward.
I almost wish I hadn't found out.
I think I figured out what that loud boom was yesterday afternoon. As far as I can tell, I believe it was the sound of a person dying.
The only thing I could find out that happened yesterday about that time was a person was loading a pallet of steel onto a flatbed truck about half a mile away from me and that pallet fell over onto him.
It was LOUD and it was a BOOM-boom. Really loud boom and a second, less loud and shorter boom immediately afterward.I almost wish I hadn't found out.
I’m so sorry to hear that.I feel the same way, @TribbleCookie. Most of the time when I'm posting.
I think I figured out what that loud boom was yesterday afternoon. As far as I can tell, I believe it was the sound of a person dying.
The only thing I could find out that happened yesterday about that time was a person was loading a pallet of steel onto a flatbed truck about half a mile away from me and that pallet fell over onto him.
I almost wish I hadn't found out.
It’s tough finding something like that out, even if you didn’t know the person, you witnessed it in a way. I know it’s cliche but I think things like that give us a reason to count our blessings, be thankful that we’re still around.
I’ll say a prayer for the poor fellow.
what a terrible accident! And that sort of thing tends to stick in the memory for ages.
Btw, is it just me or has anyone else made the same experience: I am far less thick skinned than I was as a teenager. Problems and unpleasant things get through to my core and stay there for days.
Does one get more sensitive when one gets older?
Btw, is it just me or has anyone else made the same experience: I am far less thick skinned than I was as a teenager. Problems and unpleasant things get through to my core and stay there for days.
Does one get more sensitive when one gets older?
I'm a mixture of both. I'm far more sentimental now, but at the same time, Time has hardened me in many ways.
Update on that sound and the explanation I gave: I cannot find a single reference online to the sound I heard and it turns out that the news story (which has yet to be updated) was from January 30 of this year. Yeah, about 10 months ago.
I would love to know how NO ONE has mentioned that sound online. I did walk out to my street right after it happened to see if it was something on my street (there have been other house explosions here in the Cities recently) and I saw my neighbor across the street on the phone, just kinda hanging out in front of his house. He's a City Councilman. I guess I need to go over there to find out what happened.
Update on that sound and the explanation I gave: I cannot find a single reference online to the sound I heard and it turns out that the news story (which has yet to be updated) was from January 30 of this year. Yeah, about 10 months ago.
I would love to know how NO ONE has mentioned that sound online. I did walk out to my street right after it happened to see if it was something on my street (there have been other house explosions here in the Cities recently) and I saw my neighbor across the street on the phone, just kinda hanging out in front of his house. He's a City Councilman. I guess I need to go over there to find out what happened.
How loud was it?
I was convinced for a while that I could here gunshots outside my house. Frequent short blasts accompanied by an immediate echo clap. I always jump to conclusions and imagined some madman was roaming the countryside taking out innocents at random, and would likely knock on my door next. Turned out to be coming from the nearby farm.
I was convinced for a while that I could here gunshots outside my house. Frequent short blasts accompanied by an immediate echo clap. I always jump to conclusions and imagined some madman was roaming the countryside taking out innocents at random, and would likely knock on my door next. Turned out to be coming from the nearby farm.
In a town nearby, there's something definitely wrong. They keep digging holes in some streets (for some unclear reason) and the traffic gets perturbed as a result, they fill those holes imperfectly and a few months later THEY DO IT AGAIN!! I mean this business has been going on for years. If I paid local taxes in that town, I'd have a few questions to ask of its mayor!!!
^ I'm thinking there might be an ulterior motive. 
I live in a suburb of Minneapolis' sister city (Twin Cities). It could have been construction, but there has been a lot of construction on a nearby freeway and nothing has sounded close to that sound. It literally did sound like an explosion with a smaller secondary explosion or echo.
Oh man.
Dr. Seuss, is that you?!
Ouch! Sorry, Butters.
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I wonder if there'd be a market for sci-fi decor. Not just paintings or drawings or models or sculptures, mind you. I'm talking full-on spaceship interiors.
Ouch! Sorry, Butters.
Thanks
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Not if the voyager flat is anything to go by:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...because-she-wants-a-fresh-start-10248955.html
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