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Gorfram

@Gorfram@beige.party

Curmudgeoness & Bluestocking. Politics indigo, language ultraviolet. Adrift upon the cryptic tides of life. Likes to use big words & play at being all intellectual. Retired engineer. Mostly harmless.

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LRRRonEarth, to random
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HUMANS ARE PRETTY GOOD, BUT EWOK MEAT? UNBELIEVABLE.

Gorfram,
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@LRRRonEarth @michael You don’t much care for ewok?

Gorfram,
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@michael @LRRRonEarth Go ewok, go ebrok

Gorfram,
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@LRRRonEarth @michael Okay, now I’m the one who needs @glitzersachen to explain the joke.

dgar, to random
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One of my shoes is missing.

I have some sole searching to do.

Gorfram,
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@dgar @bikenut Folks, we have a winner.

the_etrain, to random
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Ah, yes. The cargo pocket. Deepest of all the pockets. Never know what you'll find in there. Could be gold in them thar pockets.

Gorfram,
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@the_etrain There exist “cargo cults.” Does the concurrent existence of cargo pants therefore imply the existence of at least one “cargo pants cult”?

thepoliticalcat, to random
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Left ankle: hugely swollen, yet only somwhat painful.
Right knee: slightly swollen and puffy, yet incredibly tender, unstable, and difficult to use.

Is the difference due to the AGE of the injury? The left ankle was horribly twisted 50 years ago and has continued to hurt periodically over the past 5 decades.

Right knee eroded due to arthritis, only painful for the past decade, tho increasingly.

FWIW, I get the usual advice from every MD: RICE. Take painkillers.

Gorfram,
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@thepoliticalcat @WhiteCatTamer *assuming it’s osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is beyond my sphere of comprehension.

Gorfram,
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@thepoliticalcat @WhiteCatTamer I’ve had good luck with heat/ice rotation for plantar fasciitis. The idea was that repeated dilation & constriction of the blood vessels would sort of “pump” circulation into ligaments & tendons that otherwise don’t get much.
In my wildly inexpert medical understanding, the heat/ice might work well for the poor old tendons & ligaments in your ankle, but not so much for the lost bone & cartilage* in your knee.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

Gorfram,
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@4d3fect @RickiTarr Let’s just say there’s plenty of ink in old William Penn.

teacherbuknoy, to random
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Have you ever stopped to think what Isaac must've felt after his father tried to kill him in the name of God? How he must've always wondered if his father loved him, and if he did, how could he have sacrificed him so easily just because God promised a land and another son, so replaceable, so disposable? Did he think that he was just like his father's sheep, another one of his properties he's willing to sell off?

Now, think about how your practice of religion affects your children.

Gorfram,
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@teacherbuknoy That was my first thought when I first heard the story. I’ve always assumed that Isaac grew up to leave home at the first opportunity, and to avoid religious practice whenever possible.

*IDK if there’s info in the Bible about Isaac’s later life that contradicts this. My religious education was kind of wildly sporadic.

fkamiah17, to random
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😂 😂🙄
Woman whose only claim to fame is an affair with Spaffer dissects women's politics.

Gorfram,
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@fkamiah17 Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless, and probably much happier than we would be otherwise.

It has also left us comfortable with saying “Go fuck yourself.”

sheepnik, to random
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Wok-a-moley is a great name for a takeaway place.

Gorfram,
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@sheepnik @TheBreadmonkey @helenclayton @purplepadma Ah, the famous automobile brake service chain.

_L1vY_, to random
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If you have a dog as your avi at some level I really think you are a talking dog

Gorfram,
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@_L1vY_ So, do you have any real evidence that I’m not a texting cat?

Gorfram,
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@thepoliticalcat @_L1vY_ So, the evidence that I’m not a texting cat is that the cat that I am not does not appear to mind you texting?

That …checks out.

GrimmReality, to random
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We should all pay proper respect to Tori Amos by pronouncing her name like a Spanish verb.

Gorfram,
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@GrimmReality My high school Spanish is failing me here. Would that make it “to-REE-uh-mos”?

*preferably with a trilled R?

Gorfram,
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@GrimmReality Muchas gracias.

Yes, that is wonderful. I said it out loud immediately (indeed trilling the ‘r’); and am now waiting wishing hoping for the artist in question it is to play ones of those towns called Torremolinos.

Alice, to random
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I lost my engagement ring and I'm shopping for a replacement, but I'm overwhelmed because there are so many different kinds and I’m having a hard time choosing between a bellybutton ring or toe ring.

Gorfram,
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@Alice I think I need you to define “tasteful” as used within this context.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

Gorfram,
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@HeavenlyPossum @Oggie. It’s interesting that in this example & at least 3 of the 4* in the post above it, the people involved were non-White.

*I don’t know enough about the history of Trypilia, or of race, to be sure of the 4th.

Gorfram,
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@HeavenlyPossum Yikes! I didn’t mean to open (or even to bthreaten) a discussion anywhere near that large.

The only real idea behind my post was that there often seems to be a strong correlation between capitalism & European culture/whiteness.

*from my limited sphere of quasi-intellectual observation

RickiTarr, to random
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Add in Eww you shouldn't take those pills, you just need to try this diet I'm doing, and exercise the way I do, and you got the whole ableism crew:

Gorfram,
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@RickiTarr Someone once suggested, in apparent seriousness, that I could cure my disability by going to Mexico for coffee enemas.

☕️🍑 👀🙈

skinnylatte, to food
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Speaking of how the food cultures you grew up with impacts you:

When I left Southeast Asia, I only knew how to cook mostly French and Italian foods. It didn't make sense to cook Malay or Indonesian or Chinese foods because, well I could buy it cheaply any time I wanted. In that region.

I learned quickly that because I had never eaten a simple meal my entire life, eating food that was prepared simply made me extremely sad. Like, mental health bad / my life is bad / why did I leave, bad

Gorfram,
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@skinnylatte @pmonks …they hand-delivered to me without charge & outside their delivery area. The chef’s mother was often the one to hand me my pickup food; &, despite a big language barrier, communicated such love to me that it helped fill the the gap left by not being able to see my own mother during lockdown.
I’d still be going there if they hadn’t had to go back to an all events-catering model after lockdown ended. If I ever throw a big party, they will cater it.

Gorfram,
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@skinnylatte @pmonks [Western white person barges into thread]
During covid lockdown, I wound up picking up a week’s worth of Indian takeout every Sunday. The food was good, as the online reviews had led me to expect; but I was surprised & nearly bowled over by the love that accompanied the food. Everyone there knew my car, the chef remembered what I liked & what I didn’t order again. A few times a miscommunication led to problems with my order, and…

Alice, to random
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Throwback to about fifteen years ago when I thought it would be funny to have a beer koozie with the "baby on board" sign on it, but I had to place a custom order with a minimum and ended up with 25 of them.

Gorfram,
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@Alice Well, since gender reveal parties weren’t a thing yet, I guess beer koozie birth* announcements had to do.

*rather, non-birth announcements
**strictly, non-birth non-announcements

GrimmReality, to random
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I know actual fuckall about dance as an art or a medium but sometimes stumble across a work of pure transcendent beauty and respond to it, as one does, by saying HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

If you could use something like that for three minutes, here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPPgPcw4hk

Gorfram,
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@GrimmReality This is so good & filmed so well.

And that chair-kick moment…

RickiTarr, to random
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Why do you think so many people are obsessed with murder?

Gorfram,
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@RickiTarr @Jennifer @notroot I like true crime, although I have to take it in small doses. It makes me feel like I know what to watch out for; and like whatever sh*t is going on my life isn’t so bad by comparison.

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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A lot of us hate Escape (The Piña Colada Song) for being twee garbage but even I can admit we might think a bit differently about it if it ended in the noir-ish murder-suicide the narrative was pretty obviously setting up.

Gorfram,
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@GrimmReality I think “making love”, as in sex, got its start as a euphemism for “making whoopie,” not as in “making Whoopie pies.”

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