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TLB73

@TLB73@topspicy.social

Tired #electronics engineer
Still love music

Childhood #FSGS leading to a

Kidney transplant in 1995

Straight Boring Dude

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RickiTarr, to random
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It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
I will be the second person to mention monstrous regiment, like actual lol.
FFS, etc.

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Fuck me sideways, music brings us together!
Back from the pub with Electric Mudd being real nice to my ears 👍

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
It doesn't have a name, but I've literally seen it and know how it happened.
Cannabis, until a better solution presents itself 😊

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Kent. The Garden of England.
Dover sole, Crab and mussels.
Cherries. Oh man the cherries.
You know I can see the sea, and about 20 miles along the coast eastwards and you're in an actual desert.
Beautiful chalk cliffs if you go out to sea and look backwards.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’m sick and tired of consolidation and monopolies. BREAK THEM ALL UP.

TLB73,
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@StillIRise1963
That and brexit is what finally sent me over the edge.
Just so bloody stupid and wasteful.

RickiTarr, to random
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Halp!!! I got deodorant in my mouth!

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
How?

RickiTarr, to random
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Awww this takes me back! What has been the most important in your life?

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Music.
My phone now has a copy of my music collection on a storage card a half the size of a postage stamp. And the quality is all good now. Over 800 albums even in studio quality.
No more slushy mp3 just to have it on the go.

RickiTarr, to random
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What in the Conservative Hell?

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Oh shit, that's gnarly.

Skepticat, to random
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I will be lurking until further notice.

TLB73,
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@Skepticat
Lurking?
On a Thursday?

TLB73,
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@Skepticat
One of those days?

TLB73,
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@Skepticat
I am so, so sorry.
Big hugs to you x

RickiTarr, to random
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So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:

Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.

Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL

Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.

https://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48?si=e9ZwpiRj9A5Q9hfT

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Ooof.
I know this one.
I found her a real downer, because:
I was trying so fucking hard to make it happen myself, as adult.
All the time hearing this negativity, like has this bitch never listened to My Generation?
We need to deal with this shit, like NOW, not do as she says because MY parents did the same fucking thing and yeah, take a look at the fucking hippies and the rockers and the mods now. Like, you wot m8?
Bloody useless 😎 :GoodTea:

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
Maybe having happen to me what happened lit a fire under my arse. All I know is I can tell you it's at best a weak façade, however they've done a bang up job at keeping us all fighting amongst ourselves, eh? So we're too busy or just too damn fed up.

TLB73,
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@RickiTarr
I suppose you do.
By the time I'd hit 26 and things were looking up for real, like "in the long term"
I started having really vaguely defined ideas about where I'd like to be.
And reliving the 80-90's really wasn't on the list, you know?
Knowledge is power, fill your head!
Was my goal.

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  • TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    Laughs
    😂
    I'm 51 tomorrow.
    That shouldn't even be possible.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    Aww, man that is funny! The year I leave school, they changed that shit.
    Literally had no idea.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It insane to me how often women are not given pain management for gynecological procedures, because many many years ago a male doctor who's never had a vagina, cervix, or uterus decided that there weren't enough nerve endings up there to hurt significantly. I think it's time to put this fallacy to bed. It most definitely does hurt, and people who have literally no experience with female equipment don't get to decide this for me. Trust me docs, you don't want to taste your own medicine on this.

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    Right?
    That's fucking insane.
    I had a stent removal post kidney transplant.
    There's only one way that is retrieved.
    And yes they used local anaesthesia.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    What you’re really saying is that if you go to this school, keep your mouth shut and kiss enough ass, you too can be one of us. I wouldn’t want to be one of you. Not even a little bit.

    TLB73,
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    @StillIRise1963
    There's this book I read as a teenager, Futuretrack 5.
    Obviously made an impression on me.
    Excel without conforming.
    Was the only was to survive.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
    brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

    Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

    This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

    We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

    So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

    https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

    It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    For the lols could you buy a geiger counter?
    Or.. Is there a geo fault there, so a random hot spring?

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    Right?
    I'm wondering if it's embarrassingly high in natural U-238 or something other than just salts and sulphur perhaps.

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    You can pull up a Radon gas map perhaps, I can do that here.
    Radon gas can pocket up in odd places.

    I dunno about you, but I find "spooky radioactive shit" kind of fascinating.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I guess you play so you never forget?

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    LOL

    It's Bush... or um Bush? Anyway:

    RickiTarr, to random
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    You can also spank your wife with a SPURTLE!

    https://youtu.be/dZTtVl7PZBY?si=ZHAXVN338wpzTMaM

    TLB73,
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    @RickiTarr
    And where is that bloke's accent from, Delaware via Northampton? Weird, so weird.

    TLB73,
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    DoubleTreble, to crochet
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    @crochet

    Making progress on my latest crochet project 😁
    Three of the four corners made 🧶🧶

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    @DoubleTreble @crochet
    I've only just noticed the tiny mug.

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