What Are We Living For?

[StreetCowboy]

14 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

...I do not waste my juices, nor my precious bodily fluids.... Mandrake....!

 

I have been waiting, and husbanding my juices,...until....

...

That's a bit like purity of essence

 

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

15 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Kenny Rogers killed the Project Director's budgerigar, back in the day, back in Hong Kong.

We had a project apartment, and Kenny Rogers was the only one staying there over Christmas, so the PD gave him the budgie to look after, and came back to find it dead.  Worse things happen at sea.  Worse things happened in that flat.

 

The other guys had gone out for the day, mentioning that for some reason they had lost power in the upstairs - just to be clear, the flat was three flats joined together, two and one upstairs.  I mentioned this to the security guard, and (my recollection is hazy wit the mists of time) for some reason we looked in the upper flat mailbox, and had it not been rammed absolutely full of utility bills, we'd have struggled to get them out with a coat hanger.  Anyway, I took the most recent Demand For Money With Menaces to China Light and Power, and settled their griveances, and the boys had power (and light) when they came back that evening.

 

I spoke, some years later, in another country, to a chap who mentioned that he had stayed in a mutual friend's former apartment, but had moved out when the Municipal Planning Department came round asking for some ad hoc balconies to be removed (again - treat this as subject to the vagaries of recollection of pub conversations....) 

 

Anyway, the moral of this story is "Regardless of whether the Postman Knocks, check your mailbox".  As St Peter said to the cheating domino player "Don't you ever knock?" 

 

I see, thankfully, that you are still posting comments on TV, such as they be....

 

More power to you, while our youth lasts....for...

 

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.

 

 

[save the frogs]

34 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

But, I am here to tell you that I am the exception to the rule....

 

I use resources, but only sparingly.

 

I do not waste my juices, nor my precious bodily fluids.... Mandrake....!

 

I have been waiting, and husbanding my juices,...until....

 

One day, when I am ready....

 

I will gush forth, and spread my bodily fluids, like Melville's sperm whale in heat....

 

Mark my words...

 

I have been husbanding my strength, biding my time, waiting for the moment....

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one should have to suffer posts like that ever in the course of their lifetimes. 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, save the frogs said:

 

 

No one should have to suffer posts like that ever in the course of their lifetimes. 

 

 

Better well read than dead.

Better dead than ill read, I always say....

 

Or, Better Dead than Red....

Speaking of Xi.

 

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by GammaGlobulin

[StreetCowboy]

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

 

No one should have to suffer posts like that ever in the course of their lifetimes. 

 

That's the great thing about reading; We all have a choice.
You do not need to suffer.  Your suffering is your choice. 

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

That's the great thing about reading; We all have a choice.
You do not need to suffer.  Your suffering is your choice. 

 

Reading is suffering....

I agree.

 

[StreetCowboy]

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I see, thankfully, that you are still posting comments on TV, such as they be....

 

More power to you, while our youth lasts....for...

 

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.

 

 

I never saw the budgie.  It could've been a fit-up by the Scouse mafia in their war on Country &  Western.
I'd never seen it as part of The Global Struggle before.

[GammaGlobulin]

8 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

No one should have to suffer posts like that ever in the course of their lifetimes. 

 

Let us BOTH agree that we see eye to eye concerning environmental issues....

 

And leave it at that....

 

 

[StreetCowboy]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Reading is suffering....

I agree.

 

I don't want to be argumentative, so we'll leave it there, other than to say Reading is one of the greatest joys, liberties and opportunities that we have, and we'll leave it there and say no more about it, barring possibly some ignorant and foolish claimed rebuttals. 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, StreetCowboy said:

I never saw the budgie.  It could've been a fit-up by the Scouse mafia in their war on Country &  Western.
I'd never seen it as part of The Global Struggle before.

 

May you continue to glory in the flower....

As long as you live....

 

[StreetCowboy]

2 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Let us BOTH agree that we see eye to eye concerning environmental issues....

 

And leave it at that....

 

 

Some people always have to have the last word

Ye're dedoanthairCowboy

Thanks, Imam

[GammaGlobulin]

Just now, StreetCowboy said:

I don't want to be argumentative, so we'll leave it there, other than to say Reading is one of the greatest joys, liberties and opportunities that we have, and we'll leave it there and say no more about it, barring possibly some ignorant and foolish claimed rebuttals. 

 

 

You might have misconstrued my meaning....

 

Sometimes, when reading widely, we encounter thoughts that cause us great suffering.

 

To read is to suffer.

 

How can you read Catch-22 or Dostoevsky without suffering, a bit?

 

That would be impossible, me thinks....

 

And, you don't suffer for a moment...

You suffer for years, as the result of what you had read.

 

 

[Yellowtail]

Life just keeps getting better.

[StreetCowboy]

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

You might have misconstrued my meaning....

 

Sometimes, when reading widely, we encounter thoughts that cause us great suffering.

 

To read is to suffer.

 

How can you read Catch-22 or Dostoevsky without suffering, a bit?

 

That would be impossible, me thinks....

 

And, you don't suffer for a moment...

You suffer for years, as the result of what you had read.

 

 

Everybody suffers.  Those that read understand.

The best lessons are painful ones, though I'm happy to have learnt so little.

[StreetCowboy]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Life just keeps getting better.

When life gives you lemonade, be a lemming  

[still kicking]

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Life just keeps getting better.

Yes, I am still alive, 76 turning 77 shortly, still traveling twice a year to Thailand just need assistant since I had 2 broken ankles and can't walk very far.

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, StreetCowboy said:

Everybody suffers.  Those that read understand.

The best lessons are painful ones, though I'm happy to have learnt so little.

 

Yes.

I agree that I have learned so little during my life.

 

But, if you want to learn more...

 

Then....might I suggest you read....

 

[StreetCowboy]

Thanks for the recommendation.

I have not had time to follow up on my helter skelter ride to my final destination - I hope I will have more time when I get there.

[GammaGlobulin]

17 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

When life gives you lemonade, be a lemming  

 

Already, over a decade...and....

Still, nice to know you....

 

Keep on keeping on....

 

 

[StreetCowboy]

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Already, over a decade...and....

Still, nice to know you....

 

Keep on keeping on....

 

 

Aye, that's all very nice, but it's not the way home

[GammaGlobulin]

35 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Aye, that's all very nice, but it's not the way home

 

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by GammaGlobulin

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, JimTripper said:

Most people don't live for anything. They just use up resources until they die.

You are 100% correct. It's a sad comment on the human race that we are best at killing each other and when we are not killing each other we are stealing and doing bad things to each other.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

You might have misconstrued my meaning....

 

Sometimes, when reading widely, we encounter thoughts that cause us great suffering.

 

To read is to suffer.

 

How can you read Catch-22 or Dostoevsky without suffering, a bit?

 

That would be impossible, me thinks....

 

And, you don't suffer for a moment...

You suffer for years, as the result of what you had read.

 

 

I'd rather suffer watching VDOs and movies. The visual is so much better than my imagination.

[SAFETY FIRST]

On 12/27/2023 at 5:47 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

What Are We Living For? 

I reckon your sole reason for living is to get your AN posting count high. 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

5 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'd rather suffer watching VDOs and movies. The visual is so much better than my imagination.

 

Thank you for sharing with us...your problem.

 

However, sorry, because I do not have any solution for you.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I reckon your sole reason for living is to get your AN posting count high. 

 

 

 

No.

 

But, speaking of HIGH....

 

I think this is the best tune for the end of 2023....

What say you?

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

No.

 

But, speaking of HIGH....

 

I think this is the best tune for the end of 2023....

What say you?

 

 

James Blunt did high better.

[thaibeachlovers]

7 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Thank you for sharing with us...your problem.

 

However, sorry, because I do not have any solution for you.

 

 

Sadly there is no solution, barring winning Lotto. There is no problem a few million $ will not solve.

Should I do so, I'm taking up residence in Nana Plaza for the rest of my life, though that will not be for too much longer.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

James Blunt did high better.

 

Haha...

I will never pay attention to any of your opinions....again.

 

[GammaGlobulin]

12 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sadly there is no solution, barring winning Lotto. There is no problem a few million $ will not solve.

Should I do so, I'm taking up residence in Nana Plaza for the rest of my life, though that will not be for too much longer.

 

Sadly, I am sure that you will always find....another...one last go-go girl....

 

I am sure that you aspired to much more, when you were younger, and when you still had high hopes....

 

Oh, well....

 

Such is life in Pattaya.