GabrielBell12fi

GabrielBell12fi, 15 days ago

I know I have no way of convincing anyone of this, but I am not a Russian bot (living in the UK and not being able to vote in the US election).

But these are exactly the points of view I have been expressing over here about the Tory and Labour parties. Maybe not so much the “not voting at all” one but the other three? Yeah – that sounds a lot like me right now.

(I think you should vote for someone you believe in, rather than voting for someone who is not someone else, if that makes sense)

But definitely not a Russian bot :)

GabrielBell12fi, 15 days ago

If you vote for the green party then its less likely to burn down around you :)

GabrielBell12fi, 16 days ago

I was so hoping the second image was going to say “I threw my leg at some snarky bastard on the train”

GabrielBell12fi, 15 days ago

This will sound weird when I start, but I promise if you read the whole thing it will make sense.

A while back (10, 12 years) I had major heart surgery. And so for a few weeks after I had problems doing some things, like walking for more than ten, fifteen minutes at a time, or sitting up right for more than five minutes.

But the doctors said I needed “exercise” (bastards) so my beloved and I would go out to the shops, and she’d made me walk (because she loved me) and we’d take a wheelchair with us.

Aside from the whole “walking” thing it was kind of fun, because imagine two people walking down the high street, pushing an empty wheelchair. One of them carrying a towel (and hugging it tightly) and the other walking slowly for no apparent reason. The number of strange and confused looks we got was really hilarious at times. Especially after I got tired and had to sit in the chair so she could push me for a while (which happened a lot, because of - you know - the surgery and the tired) and we saw someone who had seen us a few minutes earlier when I was up and walking about as if I was fine.

Needless to say I seldom, if ever, gave up my seat on the bus, train, bench or anywhere else if anyone asked. Even if the person asking was 101 years old. I did explain why, and no one argued with me, but sometimes I got some dirty looks for that as well. Because I looked young and fit with no physical injuries.

It wasn’t forever, and I never claimed to be disabled, and after eight or nine weeks I could bound about like a gazelle on heat. But those first few weeks? We got a lot of strange looks. And I know I said it was hilarious, but only because if I had decided to take offence then I would have whacked the wheelchair into so many people I probably would have been arrested :)

(The towel, if you were wondering, was for my chest. Having your chest cracked open and put back together hurts a lot, but then if you sneeze or cough oh my sweet fucking god it hurts so much more. Putting a towel against it mitigates it some but still – fucking ow!!)

GabrielBell12fi, 15 days ago

Now that you mention it that may have been a concern :)

GabrielBell12fi, 19 days ago

Are you suggesting the politicians who try to help people out, or who care about the public, are the “few bad apples”?

GabrielBell12fi, 21 days ago

So now one else is going to comment on the fact the text just stops halfway through a wo

GabrielBell12fi, 24 days ago

How would you describe them?

I haven’t played football, run around a track, played rounders or anything else since I was at school. They are what kids do and yeah – people who do them for a living? They were probably the popular kids who still think they are in senior school and never grew out of it.

GabrielBell12fi, 24 days ago

Music accomplishes something for people other than the person performing it.

I would argue the same can’t be said for sports.

As for the “popular kid at school” comment – I didn’t say everyone who was popular was a dick.

GabrielBell12fi, 24 days ago

There are plenty of people who think boxing is a barbaric display of pointless violence. Something that gained a little traction when a boxer died a week or so ago after his first fight.

Just as a matter of interest. And yeah, I know you aren’t going on at me personally. I understand it takes all sorts to make a world. And to be honest its no so much “sports” I have a problem with (boxing aside – that I admit I would like to see stopped but that’s a debate for another time) but “professional sports” and things like the Olympics, The World Cup and so on. Where we are encouraged to celebrate “heroes” who can do nothing more than run round in a circle faster than someone else.

I think that’s where my problems with “sports” tend to come from – not the sports themselves but the… the culture surrounding them and the unnecessary bullshit that goes along with them.

GabrielBell12fi, 1 month ago

Two… three… days.

I was really, really ill as a baby.

GabrielBell12fi, 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6542c009-89af-4383-b045-86d0c1af2ed4.png

GabrielBell12fi, 2 months ago

Ah now it makes sense

I finally get it

Although I think that last rhyme

Is a little bit… crap.

GabrielBell12fi, 2 months ago

But once you do that, my poetic friend

It just seems the rhyme, is wrong at the finish.

GabrielBell12fi, 2 months ago

How do you start a swimming race for cats in France?

Une. Deux. Trois. Quatre. Cinq.