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Post by The Yetimonster on Jun 10, 2009 21:27:43 GMT -5
A Packers game.
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Post by eclogite on Jun 10, 2009 21:52:52 GMT -5
Well, he does accuse more places than just the south of being naco-y and racist. LA and Boston immediately come to mind, and I know there are others. And he has several jokes about how much of a bumpkin he can be in very high-end restaraunts and stuff, so I don't think he tries to come off as too hoity-toity either. He does love NY though, which I think is where he currently lives. But even NY isn't safe from a few scathing remarks. Mostly I think he just doesn't like people. Plus, I know if I were a standup comedian, I'd aim a lot of naco at my home state even though I like it a lot, just because I know about the place. Fat drunkards with fake cheese wedges on their heads? Got 'em in spades, and the world would know about it! I've never been to the south, or east. I always find myself going west to places like Colorado and Nevada and California (never been to SoCal though, and I'm not *that* interested in going) I'd like to go sometime. I have friends in Texas, Florida (family there too) and Arkansas, some of whom I haven't seen in years. I think I need to make a road trip. The furthest south I think I've ever been is southern MO, heh. Oh, well, just not liking people in general...that I get. Heh, I can't say I've ever really felt like a bumpkin. My mother was big on etiquette, so all that 'which fork to use' stuff doesn't bother me. I should probably teach my wild children some of that stuff. Sounds like we've traveled in exactly opposite areas of the US. I've been up and down the east coast (look at I-95 on a map, basically along it) as far south as Orlando FL and as far north as NYC. I've been west along I-10 and I-40 all the way to California, but I haven't been north of I-40 (well, I've been to Las Vegas, but that's just a side trip up from 40). I'd like to see more of the northern and western parts of the country. For me the requisit amount of alcohol to wear a fake cheese wedge (or real cheese wedge, for that matter) would exceed fatal toxicity. Besides, I don't watch sports, I already participate in those that interest me and have never become a fan. Not only were my parents big on manners and etiquette, it was also considered an important aspect of my profession, since we had to go to a lot of diplomatic events, where I discovered how monumentally boring most celebrities and wealthy people are. The Pacific Northwest is quite an interesting place and really has a diverse climate and geography.
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Post by eclogite on Jun 27, 2009 9:13:05 GMT -5
Figured I'd drop in and keep this thread from slipping too far down the list.
Wallpaper, paint or paneling?
In the same vein, I've had a long fondness for tile walls in kitchens and bathrooms, since it's easy to clean. Don't see it very often anymore.
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Post by Charlotte C on Jun 28, 2009 22:13:39 GMT -5
You revived my thread. ;D I'm on vacation, but I have finally bought (gasp) a laptop. It's kind of a pain to use, but I'm getting used to it. I prefer paint. It's easy to do it yourself, and relatively inexpensive. Wallpaper is a pain to put up and even worse to remove. Panelling is too 1970's for me...the house I grew up in had lots of cheap panelling. I do like that old 1950's style knotty pine panelling, though. It has some charm and reminds me of my grandparents house. We're doing the floor and shower in our new bathroom in tile (well, we're paying someone to do it. Neither of us has the patience to do tilework. It's very meticulous, and my children don't need to learn any new swear words. ) It is easy to clean, though. I find hard-surface floors in general easier to clean than carpet.
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Post by eclogite on Jun 29, 2009 10:23:16 GMT -5
Wood paneling generally brings house trailers to mind, though one of my great uncles had a house with the knotty pine that looked pretty nice.
I tend to associate wallpaper with either really old houses or 1970s foil flower type things, complete with avocado colored appliances (now where was that stash of Peter Max posters and black lights....).
One of the funnier aspects of the whole retro thing hit me out in Portland one afternoon. I was on my way home from the VA and passed an antique place. Part of their sidewalk display included a round formica topped table, identical to the one that my folks had for a kitchen table (they bought it when they bought their very first house, in the 1950s), complete with the same godawful wire backed chairs (they left a checker board like pattern in your back if you sat in them for long). Could have been mine for $400, but I gave it a miss.
I've tiled a couple of floors and agree with you on that chore. My experience with ceramic tile is limited to an art class trivet when I was in grade school. Been thinking about having some of the floors in the West Texas place done in terra cotta tile, since it is cool, easy to clean and cheap from over in Mexico. That and I'm looking at installing a couple of wood stoves to augment the solar heat for that handful of nights when it gets really cold out there. The terra cotta would be better than other flooring for the odd stray cinder.
Lap tops are handy, though I have found that mine is easier to use witha regular mouse rather than the touch pad and joystick combination that's part of the machine. I mostly bought it to keep up with boards and email while traveling. Since most of the places I go are beyond internet range, it tends to get used to download digital photography more than anything else (a friend gave me a cigarette lighter power rig, so I can run it off the vehicles).
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 1, 2009 23:24:58 GMT -5
Wood paneling generally brings house trailers to mind, though one of my great uncles had a house with the knotty pine that looked pretty nice. I tend to associate wallpaper with either really old houses or 1970s foil flower type things, complete with avocado colored appliances (now where was that stash of Peter Max posters and black lights....). One of the funnier aspects of the whole retro thing hit me out in Portland one afternoon. I was on my way home from the VA and passed an antique place. Part of their sidewalk display included a round formica topped table, identical to the one that my folks had for a kitchen table (they bought it when they bought their very first house, in the 1950s), complete with the same godawful wire backed chairs (they left a checker board like pattern in your back if you sat in them for long). Could have been mine for $400, but I gave it a miss. I've tiled a couple of floors and agree with you on that chore. My experience with ceramic tile is limited to an art class trivet when I was in grade school. Been thinking about having some of the floors in the West Texas place done in terra cotta tile, since it is cool, easy to clean and cheap from over in Mexico. That and I'm looking at installing a couple of wood stoves to augment the solar heat for that handful of nights when it gets really cold out there. The terra cotta would be better than other flooring for the odd stray cinder. Lap tops are handy, though I have found that mine is easier to use witha regular mouse rather than the touch pad and joystick combination that's part of the machine. I mostly bought it to keep up with boards and email while traveling. Since most of the places I go are beyond internet range, it tends to get used to download digital photography more than anything else (a friend gave me a cigarette lighter power rig, so I can run it off the vehicles). Formica as an antique. That's just wrong! We had one of those cheap formica tables when I was a kid, too...the kind with the fake wood grain...because why have actual wood when you can have plastic that slightly resembles wood, huh? Yeah, I don't love the laptop, but it's handy. (Not just for this stuff, but for email related to work and my real identity. It also helps keep my kiddos entertained.) I might like it better with a real mouse. This little pad thing is crap.
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Post by The Yetimonster on Jul 2, 2009 12:45:50 GMT -5
You're not going to pull a Great White and burn the forum down, are you?
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Post by eclogite on Jul 2, 2009 20:55:28 GMT -5
Burning down? No, not planning to.
Formica tabletops do look pretty archaic now, kind of like having a Hudson Hornet in the driveway (actually we did, back when the formic topped kitchen table mentioned earlier was new).
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Post by The Yetimonster on Jul 2, 2009 22:19:45 GMT -5
Oh naco...I'm in the eclogite ask me thread. My bad.
I'll just excuse myself to go find Charlotte's thread and make a six-years-too-late lame joke about her pyrotechnics thread title. I'm sure it'll be good.
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 3, 2009 11:18:44 GMT -5
Hey! No bickering in my thread! Or it's a time-out for both of you! And now, Andy...please explain the old joke cause I'm even older and don't know the reference. ;D I meant actual fireworks, which we're going to shoot off on the beach along with a couple hundred other people...it's an annual tradition here.
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Post by The Yetimonster on Jul 3, 2009 13:14:56 GMT -5
I know you were around in 2003, and I know you remember Great White Ooops.
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 3, 2009 22:30:25 GMT -5
I know you were around in 2003, and I know you remember Great White Ooops.Oh, the band! Duh! Yeah, I remember them. Once Bitten, Twice Shy was huge when I was a teenager. I thought you were talking about some former member who used Great White as their screen name and did...something...to, you know, ruin the internet or...something stupid like that. (looks embarrassed ) Geez, I guess I have been drinking too much down here. But, no, I don't plan to burn anything down. We shoot off our fireworks on the beach, where we can only hurt ourselves.
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Post by eclogite on Jul 6, 2009 16:24:40 GMT -5
I know you were around in 2003, and I know you remember Great White Ooops.Oh, the band! Duh! Yeah, I remember them. Once Bitten, Twice Shy was huge when I was a teenager. I thought you were talking about some former member who used Great White as their screen name and did...something...to, you know, ruin the internet or...something stupid like that. (looks embarrassed ) Geez, I guess I have been drinking too much down here. But, no, I don't plan to burn anything down. We shoot off our fireworks on the beach, where we can only hurt ourselves. Don't feel bad, I'd completely forgotten them, as well. I thought it was a reference to the office supplies company of the same name.
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Post by The Yetimonster on Jul 10, 2009 23:52:58 GMT -5
Oh, the band! Duh! Yeah, I remember them. Once Bitten, Twice Shy was huge when I was a teenager. You just inadvertently dated yourself Of course, I'd do the same thing if I said something like 'I Saw the Sign' was huge when I was 8.'
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 13, 2009 21:33:28 GMT -5
Oh, the band! Duh! Yeah, I remember them. Once Bitten, Twice Shy was huge when I was a teenager. You just inadvertently dated yourself Of course, I'd do the same thing if I said something like 'I Saw the Sign' was huge when I was 8.' Oh, I don't mind that. I've admitted how old I was here before. Mid-thirties. No secret. I just have the 'show age' thing turned off because when I signed up for the forum, I made a typo on my DOB, and I don't want people wishing me happy birthday on the wrong day, and then having to explain, over and over and over...I don't have issues with my age. I'm so much happier and more confident than I was in my teens and twenties. I feel more comfortable with my body and more satisfied with my appearance, sex is better, I have more money and the freedom to use it as I please...and I got carded at Target buying a couple bottles of wine the other night (not the standard company-policy-if-you're-under-40 kind of getting carded; hostile, suspicious getting carded where I had to take my license out of my wallet and the clerk scrutinized it and held it close to her face and squinted at me), so I must not look too ancient. And I don't think I think like a stodgy middle-aged person, either. The only real drawback I've found to getting older so far is that you begin having fewer choices. Where to go to college, what to major in, who to date, who to sleep with and when, whether to live together or get married, and to whom and when, whether or not to have kids, and how many and when, where to live, what to do for a living....I've already made all those choices, and while I can make changes, I can't go back and undo anything. Some things I'm happy with (the person I married ;D ) and some I'm not (I never intended to live in this same stupid area my whole life ) but making a change would be, in a lot of ways, not worthwhile. My husband can retire in about 10 years...if we moved somewhere else he'd lose half his 401k (of the half that's left after the last year or so) and have to start over again, career-wise. I don't especially like my job, but I've got it too good at this job to change at this point. But as far as my actual age, no issues there. And like they say, getting older sure beats the alternative.
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 14, 2009 0:10:05 GMT -5
Did you secretly like being carded? ;D
Do others around you share your view about aging or are you a more gifted thinker than most people?
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 14, 2009 22:06:43 GMT -5
Did you secretly like being carded? ;D Of course. Anyone who was born in the seventies and gets carded has to like it. Do others around you share your view about aging or are you a more gifted thinker than most people? Oh, I don't know. I'd guess, from things I've heard people say, it's probably about half and half. And it differs for different people at different ages, I think, and depending on how their life is going at the time. But if I were to take a survey of people I know, I bet more people would say they're happier now ( now being in their 30s or 40s) than they were as teens. But I don't really talk to a lot of people IRL.
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Post by The Yetimonster on Jul 15, 2009 21:58:55 GMT -5
Do you ever run across entertainment from your youth and find yourself getting punched in the face by just how easily you used to be amused?
I just saw Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead by chance the other day, which I thought was pretty cool when I was ~7 years old. Now I just can't believe I ever watched it in the first place.
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 16, 2009 0:03:49 GMT -5
Oh, I don't know. I'd guess, from things I've heard people say, it's probably about half and half. And it differs for different people at different ages, I think, and depending on how their life is going at the time. But if I were to take a survey of people I know, I bet more people would say they're happier now ( now being in their 30s or 40s) than they were as teens. But I don't really talk to a lot of people IRL. Yeah, I remember you saying you guys got your house so that the neighbors couldn't have a direct line of site. ;D Can't say that I blame you. How did your trip go to hell so badly? It didn't seem that bad a few days ago when you first got your lap top. And after reading my thread, I gotta ask... how good does that moonshine taste? ;D
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 21, 2009 20:57:48 GMT -5
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