Ten Facts...

[arewethereyet]

Hmmm....let's see...

11. I have six tattoos. One covers my leg from knee to ankle and features a blue marlin and the lighthouse I was born near.
12. I like some rap...a lot. I also like EDM. Not all that expected out of an old white broad.
13. I loathe snowy weather.
14. I can sew clothing and made most of my clothes when I was a teen and in my early 20s and a lot of my girls' clothes when they were young. I also used to make curtains and I used to embroider and cross stitch quite a bit.
15. I'm a notorious plant killer. Seems no matter how hard I try I can't keep a houseplant or a potted plant alive.
16. I am starting to feel a bit bionic...I wear glasses and hearing aids and have breast implants (thanks to cancer) and a stent in my heart.
17. I plan to leave my body to a body farm so my family won't have final expenses and because I am a true crime junkie.
18. Raised by two abusive alcoholics...I haven't had a drink in over twenty years. Alcohol was never my drug of choice.
19. I have (not all at once) driven from coast to coast in the US by myself over the years.
20. Seven years in Catholic schools...came out an atheist.

[Gwaithmir]

14. This sounds like one of those puzzles that you have to find out which kid had which instrument and sat at which table but you only get one lined hints. lol
18. Fuck me. I thought I was hot shit with my collection. I just hit 600 bound books. You are my inspiration.
21. Or told her to try again with Deathly Hollows.

14.  lol, Sorry.  I play guitar, mandolin, banjo, bodhran, uilleann pipes and pennywhistle.

18.  Well, I've had more time than you to stock up.

21.  NO DO-OVERS!!!

Boru

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Yeah, pretty sure the bagpipes aren't one of them either!

Actually, yes.  I play uilleann pipes, which are these:



not Highland pipes, which is this monstrosity:



Boru

Egads! Over 20 years since I've seen Riverdance and I finally learn what those strange pipes are really called.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

14.  lol, Sorry.  I play guitar, mandolin, banjo, bodhran, uilleann pipes and pennywhistle.

18.  Well, I've had more time than you to stock up.

21.  NO DO-OVERS!!!

Boru

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Actually, yes.  I play uilleann pipes, which are these:



not Highland pipes, which is this monstrosity:



Boru

Egads! Over 20 years since I've seen Riverdance and I finally learn what those strange pipes are really called.

Related joke:  The Irish invented Highland pipes over 1000 years ago, sent them to Scotland, and the Scots STILL haven't gotten the joke.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Don't tell me...They sound completely different to bagpipes, right?   hehe

Actually, they do.  Much softer and sweeter (cover two full octaves) and are more suitable for whaddyacallit...music.

Seriously, Irish pipes have a much broader range of notes - you can do sharps and flats, which you can't really do with Highland pipes (well, you can, but it's a fraud). Uilleanns are generally played indoors, sitting down, and people are less likely to beg you to stop playing. Additionally, you can sing while playing, whereas with the Scottish abomination, if you stop blowing for even a second, it sounds like someone has sat on a gas-filled hedgehog (generally an improvement).

Boru

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One sounds like a dog with his balls stuck in a bear trap.

The other sounds like a group of cats with their balls caught in a bear trap.

Haven't you got a boat to go buy, woman?

Boru

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In fairness, I should give a comparison between the two.  Here's proper pipes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTHs7eQSKc

And Scottish pipes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4mcHyO_bQ

Boru

I will be buying a boat hopefully this weekend.

[Joods]

Round two: 

11. I officially entered menopause at age 44.
12. The twins I lost at age 18 would be turning 29 next March. 
13. I stuck my finger in a lamp socket once because I was curious as to what would happen. The lamp was plugged in. 
14. I like eating mustard on hard pretzels as well as soft pretzels.
15. As a teen, I owned the entire book series of Sweet Valley High.
16. I once owned a Burmese python who liked car rides, go carts and watching cartoons. 
17. My first job was at Burger King when I was 15 years old. I made $3.14 an hour in 1986.
18. While I hate math, I have the social security numbers of myself, all my kids, two ex husbands and my current other half memorized. I also have my driver's license number from Maryland, 21 years ago, memorized (B230 454 564 415)
19. I taught myself how to use a sewing machine and how to crochet. 
20. For the last 30 years, I've never been without some sort of a pet in my life.

[ignoramus]

Beccs. Don't buy a boat! Just don't.

(please wait 2 years max when the world economy collapses and they'll be giving them away!)

Over 1 million households now in Au under severe mortgage stress ...it's starting ... trust me.

[The Valkyrie]

Beccs. Don't buy a boat! Just don't.

(please wait 2 years max when the world economy collapses and they'll be giving them away!)

Over 1 million households now in Au under severe mortgage stress ...it's starting ... trust me.

Why.

Do you think I should buy a bigger boat down the track?

[ignoramus]

The way things are going, you'll need one later .... to fish. For food!
The next crash will be worse than the depression by all economic metrics.

I'm selling the house next year for this reason. (damage control)

[no one]

These facts are becoming rather depressing.

[ignoramus]

Sorry. Please think of rainbows, unicorns, icecream and a world without Trump! Ahhhh.....What were we talking about again?