(December 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(December 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Curse?

it highlights how much of your life will be spent being old and dilapidated?

Beats the hell out of working until you’re too clapped out to enjoy a bit of leisure.

Boru

(December 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:

(December 20, 2023 at 6:14 pm)brewer Wrote: I found it to be both blessing and curse.

Curse?

Too much free time can become very tedious, monotonous, just plain damn dull.

Plus free time for someone with a penchant for addiction...................

It took me 3+ years to work off the projects that I had put off while working, that I didn't want contractors to do. I saved a ton (but jacked up my back-there's the trade-off). People were asking me what I would do with my time. I also do wood working and wood carving. Read, look at pron on the internet, etc. I am considering talking to the local school district about being a temp for physics and math teachers, but I just don't know, for sure.

(December 20, 2023 at 11:03 pm)brewer Wrote:

(December 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Curse?

Too much free time can become very tedious, monotonous, just plain damn dull.

Plus free time for someone with a penchant for addiction...................

Mr. Service and I respectfully disagree:

Laziness - Robert W. Service

Let laureates sing with rapturous swing
Of the wonder and glory of work;
Let pulpiteers preach and with passion impeach
The indolent wretches who shirk.
No doubt they are right: in the stress of the fight
It's the slackers who go to the wall;
So though it's my shame I perversely proclaim
It's fine to do nothing at all.


It's fine to recline on the flat of one's spine,
With never a thought in one's head:
It's lovely to le staring up at the sky
When others are earning their bread.
It's great to feel one with the soil and the sun,
Drowned deep in the grasses so tall;
Oh it's noble to sweat, pounds and dollars to get,
But; it's grand to do nothing at all.

So sing to the praise of the fellows who laze
Instead of lambasting the soil;
The vagabonds gay who lounge by the way,
Conscientious objectors to toil.
But lest you should think, by this spatter of ink,
The Muses still hold me in thrall,
I'll round out my rhyme, and (until the next time)
Work like hell; doing nothing at all.

Boru

there is a deep genetic reason why in most mammal and bird species it is the male that spends most of the metabolic cost to developing traits whose primary value is to compete for and attract females for mating, rather than the other way around.

The reason is male sex chromosome is inherited purely from the father and does not undergo recombination with the mother’s genes. Therefore traits encoded in the male sex chromosome are all expressed, and not suppressed by a different copy of the same genes. So it is more efficient to weed out bad genes from the gene pool by challenging the male to undertake metabolically expensive tasks than it is by challenging the female, because a female who passes such challenges and is outwardly without genetic short comings is more likely to actually have hidden, bad, but unexpressed copies of genes that she can pass onto her offspring.

@arewethereyet changed her avatar image.

(December 21, 2023 at 8:28 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: @arewethereyet changed her avatar image.

I only change it every couple days.  

Lately using pics that aren't Margot Robbie, trying to add a festive touch.

(December 21, 2023 at 8:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(December 21, 2023 at 8:28 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: @arewethereyet changed her avatar image.

I only change it every couple days.  

Lately using pics that aren't Margot Robbie, trying to add a festive touch.

Decided to get in the festive mood here at least, since I never do in real life.

(December 21, 2023 at 8:37 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:

(December 21, 2023 at 8:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I only change it every couple days.  

Lately using pics that aren't Margot Robbie, trying to add a festive touch.

Decided to get in the festive mood here at least, since I never do in real life.

Festive? Looks like a wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak. 

In the UK, you can have £10,000 in the bank before it starts to effect disability income.
In Canada, the number is (at least in some provinces) up to $100,000
In the US? $2,000 is the hard limit. Maybe $3,000 if you're married.