Random Thoughts

[Silver]

Someone at work went out of their way to get me to admit that I'm gay without directly asking me. I had no issue informing them of my homosexual orientation.

[Rev. Rye]

How in the ever-loving fuck does Novum have more to say about The VVitch than Midsommar?

[Silver]

Capitalism, generally, does very little anymore to ensure families spend quality time together.

[Silver]

Only working two days next week. Got to love a pay period where you are overworked one week and then hardly work at all the following week.

[brewer]

Capitalism, generally, does very little anymore to ensure families spend quality time together.

This is not always a good thing.

[Silver]

Capitalism, generally, does very little anymore to ensure families spend quality time together.

This is not always a good thing.

Don't I know it. With only two immediate family members left alive, I don't want to spend time with either.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Capitalism, generally, does very little anymore to ensure families spend quality time together.

I’m not sure it ever did, apart from the children working in the same coal mine as dad.

Boru

[Sheldon]

Capitalism, generally, does very little anymore to ensure families spend quality time together.

I’m not sure it ever did, apart from the children working in the same coal mine as dad.

Boru

I agree wholeheartedly, I find it helpful to fight back in my own simple way, to not buy into the idea I need every little thing, or that the "free" market wants to sell me, to learn to enjoy what I have, and to manage with less when it is necessary, to learn the satisfaction of being frugal on occasion, and the satisfaction that is to be obtained from spending less than I earn, because I planned it that way, and to put the rest aside for when I might need it...

...to despise the notion I must have something / anything, beyond the most essential necessities, to learn to enjoy those necessities all the more for that realisation, and to celebrate and appreciate everything else as a welcome indulgence. To learn to value what I have, rather than resent what I don't have. 

Of course I am pretty drunk, but what the hell...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’m not sure it ever did, apart from the children working in the same coal mine as dad.

Boru

I agree wholeheartedly, I find it helpful to fight back in my own simple way, to not buy into the idea I need every little thing, or that the "free" market wants to sell me, to learn to enjoy what I have, and to manage with less when it is necessary, to learn the satisfaction of being frugal on occasion, and the satisfaction that is to be obtained from spending less than I earn, because I planned it that way, and to put the rest aside for when I might need it...

...to despise the notion I must have something / anything, beyond the most essential necessities, to learn to enjoy those necessities all the more for that realisation, and to celebrate and appreciate everything else as a welcome indulgence. To learn to value what I have, rather than resent what I don't have. 

Of course I am pretty drunk, but what the hell...

If I could do that - live frugally and not buy things on a whim - we’d have a bigger house. 

Just as an example, years ago I was in a whatnot shop and saw and bought a pair of stuffed owls. Didn't even ponder it, I just knew that my life would better if I owned a couple of stuffed owls.

It’s become a thing in our marriage. I’ll suggest to herself that we purchase [fill in name of stupid, silly, useless item], and she’ll roll her eyes and say, ‘We need that like we need a pair of stuffed owls.’

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It’s a little-known fact that the moon is visible from The Great Wall of China.

Boru