What do you come here for?

[Dexter Sinister]

Just curious. I come here because here I find some bright, thoughtful, and articulate people who don't always agree with me, and I find the challenge of discussing issues with them stimulating, useful, and sometimes enlightening. If you've read my posts you'll know that I have a substantial and well-defended ego and tend to think I'm right about everything (don't we all?), and this place challenges me to justify that, whicn can only be a good thing, at least for me. And as I said somewhere in one of my posts, if we agreed on everything, what would we have to talk about? Helps me keep my mind alive, which has become something of an issue for me since I retired (Freedom 55, a great idea) on April 1st.

There's also a lot of good entertainment here, whether I choose to respond to certain threads or not, and there are many discussions I read with great interest without feeling moved to contribute to.

So what's your excuse?

 

[mrmom2]

Jo,Vanni ,Peapod ,REV ,Ten Packs,Hard Luck Henry,Galianomama,Twila,Zen,all make make me laugh almost every day :lol: I find that very refreshing in a cold world

P.S.
Theres lots of other people too sorry if I forget to mention ya

A guys got to have some humor or he gets bitter real fast 8)

 

[Huron]

Web forums are an excellent avoidance mechanism, e.g., there are dishes to be done however, it's really important that I provide my opinion as to which party will form the next Canadian government, so I'll skip the dishes until tomorrow.

 

[Ten Packs]

Web forums are an excellent avoidance mechanism, e.g., there are dishes to be done however, it's really important that I provide my opinion as to which party will form the next Canadian government, so I'll skip the dishes until tomorrow.

and your point would be.....?

:wink:

 

[Ten Packs]

Helps me keep my mind alive, which has become something of an issue for me since I retired (Freedom 55, a great idea) on April 1st.

My heartiest Congrats, Dex! As a 4-year retiree (though not 55 yet), let me welcome you to the fold - yet another "drag on Society"! - screw the young-uns, I say - let's indulge ourselves, while we have time! LMAO!

(just kidding - see my posts about deficit-budgets and government borrowing)



Dex, it will take a couple months to sink in.... for quite a while, it feels like "vacation", even if it's a bit long. Then slowly you realize.... "NO, all that stuff that AIN'T gonna happen anymore!"

THAT'S when you realize how much you miss it.... about as much as you miss a toothache, after you went to the Dentist!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[LadyC]

As a 4-year retiree (though not 55 yet)...

I may be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere that you're FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.

Or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[peapod]

Why do I come here, good question dex its become a habit now like brushing your teeth. :lol: There are so many great people here, I can't list them all, I would probally exclude someone and there by igniting a resentment :twisted: I like all the different representation of people here from canada and europe. Especially little ricky, I just want to desperately pinch his cheeks He is just the cutest thing, smarts and class in someone so young. 8) This sounds like a academy award acceptance speech 8O

I have learned alot of things here, some not so pleasant, but such is the price of awareness. :wink: I hope someday I will also get to meet some of the people that awe me at this board, no names of course. :wink:

Thanks mom I am glad I can make you laugh every so often. Like I said from the begining mom, its just mom and pod :lol: :lol: 8)

 

[missile]

I came in for the free cheese and the beer.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Re: RE: What do you come here for?

I came in for the free cheese and the beer.

There's free cheese and beer? :!: I missed that when I signed on. Where is it, I want my share... I bet pea and Galianomama got it...

...screw the young-uns, I say...

Do we have time for that? Is that part of the sign-on package here too?

More seriously now, much thanks for your cheerful good wishes, Ten. Here I am on day 20 of my retirement, and it still has a curious quality of unreality about it. Some part of my mind still doesn't quite believe I'm free, that I'll never again have to deal with the boneheads at Head Office, the pathetic personal problems of a few maladjusted staff, or that dumb sonofabitch in the next office... I spent the last 10 years of my working life in the federal public service, a job I took because I hoped I could make a difference (and I think I did, in a little way), and lemme tell y'all this about that: all the bad things you've ever heard about the federal public service are all true, and I came to a point where I had to choose between joining the boneheads or moving on. I moved on. Nice pension plan though. :wink:

And now I'll attempt to drag this back toward the original subject. I started lurking here a long time ago because it was like a breath of fresh air after the daily grind of that weasel race at the office, and I was most disappointed to discover I couldn't get to the site from the office, it was blocked at the firewall so I couldn't even get some relief over my lunch hour. People with wit, knowledge, style, and some highly entertaining eccentricities hang around here.

Plus a few total dipsticks, of course, but they're everywhere, and don't generally last long.

 

[peapod]

Dex...I smell freedom :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[peapod]

Pffft...if there was cheese and beer within snorting distance of galaniomama..poof...gone...sucked up and thrown into the abyss.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Dex...I smell freedom :lol: :lol: :lol:

Are you sure that's what you smell, Pea...

I mean with galiannomama gobbling up the gouda and guzzling all the beer, I think we have cause for concern over what's wafting in the air... 8O

 

[peapod]

Well maybe its not quite like that Galaniomama loves food, I don't just mean eating it. She examines everything she eats, texture, color, shape, history, trivial facts, receipes and so on. And she likes to sniff her food to. She makes friends with her food and than bids them fond farewell as they head for the abyss.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Dex...I smell freedom :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah, me too, and it's wonderfully liberating. I'm still slightly euphoric almost three weeks into it, best high I've ever had. I don't remember a time in my life when I've been so relentlessly cheerful for so long. Or got so much done, frankly. Every nice day I've been out in the garden getting my hands dirty, and while it's still a month away from planting time in this part of the world, I'm ready like I've never been before. All the beds are ready, all the old leaves and trash are mulched and in the compost bin, the soil's been turned, the roses pruned, and the trees are beginning to bud... Ah, nothing like mucking about in good clean dirt. Now I await the May long weekend, to plant the garden and get the bedding plants in. I envy you folks on the wet coast, with your longer gardening season.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Galaniomama loves food...

So do I, especially the stuff I can grow myself. I think I'd like Galianomama a lot, if I knew her in real life. And you too. That gardening thread you started a while ago really caught my interest, because my garden was under a meter of snow at the time and I was yearning to see the dirt again. There's just nothing with the flavour of home-grown tomatoes, and cucumbers, and squash, and potatoes, and peas, and beans, and beets, and carrots... Pardon me, I have to go walk around my back yard again. Even in the dark, it makes me feel good.

That's what I come here for, really: the support and comfort and interest I find in the people here.

 

[peapod]

Its not longer dex, it never stops out here, even some of the annuals out here don't realize they are suppose to be dead. Right now all my birdhouses have become bee houses. Bees are using my birdhouses! Here is something else I noticed. Bees do not like the sound of a lawn mower. At first I thought they were just going into the houses, but they were actually coming out everytime the lawn mower came anywhere near their beehouse. I tested my observations over and over again, and sure enough those bees definately did not like the sound of a lawn mower 8)

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Its not longer dex, it never stops out here

AAWWWGGG! I am eaten up with envy. It clearly stops here on the high plains, October to March is hopeless for gardening. Half a year wasted...

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Are you sure that's what you smell, Pea...

You're disgusting Vanni. I like that. :wink: One of my grandfathers used to say, "A little cheerful vulgarity is good for you," and my siblings and I used to quote that at our mother frequently, to which she would respond, "He said a *little*, a *LITTLE*..."

 

[gerryh]

I originally came here because I heard there wasn't the hypocracy of gripe...... I see now that CC is falling into the same hypocritical trap that gripe fell into.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I originally came here because I heard there wasn't the hypocracy of gripe...... I see now that CC is falling into the same hypocritical trap that gripe fell into.

What the Hell are you talking about? You see hypocrisy (learn to spell) in this thread? Could you point it out for us?