so saying being transphobic on the forum isnt okay somehow makes you think i said "its okay to do that " the exact opposite? or is it you didnt read properly for whatever reason got upset and responded.
I do not get upset over this forum or any other I have been a part of.
youre getting REALLY confused for no reason, or youre trying trying to demonize me against the users to make me seem like a bigot .
I have read The Marching Morons … senior year in college I seem to remember, in a dystopian anthology paperback loaned to me. It was brutally brilliant.I'm pretty sure I read that story again not that ago. Likely in one of his Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazines of which I must have a 100 or more from the 70s to the late 80s when I subscribed fairly regularly. I've been re-reading them, Analog, Astounding etc that I've been finding boxes of stored here and there around the place, Like the 3 boxes of my old LPs they have gone with me wherever I get to. Just bought the Nov. - Dec. edition of Analog at Al's News when I was in Grande Prairie almost two months ago to pick up a pair of Hardy fly reels I bought on marketplace. Still haven't finished reading it. Might get a subscription to it and Asimov's. They said they weren't finding Asimov's in their deliveries probably because too many were going back unsold. Don't people like sci-fi any more or is it because it's a real book and that's going out of fashion unless it's got lots of pictures and a simple story line likecomic booksgraphic novels.
Google an old sci-fi story from 1951 by C.M. Kornbluth called The Marching Morons. Not a long read but an accurate prescient missive about the times we have become. Public domain. Basically caused by what we have been doing as a society all over the world. The educated, intelligent people have been limiting their contributions to the gene pool while people like tRumps great unwashed masses, the uneducated he loves so much have been breeding like bunnies. Bunnies aren't vermin right so no need to talk about exterminating anyone.
It's almost a scary story because it all seems so likely to happen.
Sorry, I think on the fly and sometimes it takes a few seconds for me to get out what I have rolling around in my head. I quite often add or edit posts in the minute afterwards. I have no reason to demonize you, what would be the point? I have already moved on from this and decided not to bother with anything trans.
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Thanks for the clarification! I thought (the wording perhaps) that you meant we were not allowed to comment on transphobic comments, thanks again!
A post that replies to a transphobic comment to point out that transphobic comments are not allowed will get that post deleted because transphobic posts are deleted and replies to posts that are deleted get deleted. Not because there was anything wrong with that post.
Thanks Fog! Perhaps it’s time for one of your recipes
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I did post a GIF on walking on eggshells that seems to have went poof……
I had a nicely ironic reply with a great Calvin&Hobbes cartoon that fell to the same fate.I did post a GIF on walking on eggshells that seems to have went poof……
I don't keep them in the basement. Too damp down there sometimes and have had a flood or two.
I want to get myself a big dose of ammunity.
I am still working on a book for the last ten years, it is a long book though (maybe not War And Peace long). Used to take two days to read a book when I was a young strapping chick magnet (ok, skip the chick magnet thing). Really stepped in things and derailed my life, maybe I will catch up yet.I don't keep them in the basement. Too damp down there sometimes and have had a flood or two.
Every decade or so I do a purge. Way overdue but usually keep things like the little mags and a lot of classic titles I know I'll want to read gain one day. Lot less of that going on the last few years. I have most of the collection of Hardy Boy books from the 50s and 60s. My kids aren't readers and the same for all 4 grandkids so I might see if they're worth anything online. If the mice haven't hollowed out the box and are nesting in there.
Between the wife and I there'll be around 500 books going to the library and thrift store. I grab good hardcovers when I can and the library sends donated books for annual book sales to raise funds for the libraries. Thrift store sells 10 for a buck of any type of book. Been a while since I went in and went through them all to find the few diamonds in the piles. few and far between. I'll grab one book I want and toss them a buck for it. I've been shopping there for 22 years and they always say, You can get 10 for a buck but a buck is cheap for a book and they need the cash for charitable stuff. I might buy 2 or 3 new books a year and usually paperbacks tho I'll get a hardcover new Stephen King now and then.
Read a lot more online now. Can take a month to get thru a novel only reading at bedtime. 6 pages then Zzzzzz . . .
Reality bites but it is what it is. I did a speed reading course in my teens and got through War and Peace in a couple of 2 hour sessions but that kind of reading doesn't stay with you long compared to paying attention to all the words. Great for skimming through lots of print when you need to pick out pertinent parts say to write an essay for school but not when reading for pleasure. I still read pretty fast but spend too much time goofing around online and go to bed so late that I rarely read more than a few pages and start nodding off. I probably read the equivalent of a novel every couple days online now. Just got new reading glasses and the left eye twitch and headache there have virtually disappeared. Seems my right eye has changed a full diopter in 3 years and was causing those issues. As I'm getting back into rod building and fly tying I'll be doing lots of fine detail work so clear vision a must for that shit. Bought a good magnifying headset for the real fussy stuff. From a company here in Alberta too for $60. I don't think I'll be using the little headlight so that will reduce weight as it pops off easy.
I sometimes use my (cheaper) headset to do fine work on my guitars but generally throw a set of cheater glasses over my prescription ones. But I do not usually have them on for a long period of time but more in spurts.Reality bites but it is what it is. I did a speed reading course in my teens and got through War and Peace in a couple of 2 hour sessions but that kind of reading doesn't stay with you long compared to paying attention to all the words. Great for skimming through lots of print when you need to pick out pertinent parts say to write an essay for school but not when reading for pleasure. I still read pretty fast but spend too much time goofing around online and go to bed so late that I rarely read more than a few pages and start nodding off. I probably read the equivalent of a novel every couple days online now. Just got new reading glasses and the left eye twitch and headache there have virtually disappeared. Seems my right eye has changed a full diopter in 3 years and was causing those issues. As I'm getting back into rod building and fly tying I'll be doing lots of fine detail work so clear vision a must for that shit. Bought a good magnifying headset for the real fussy stuff. From a company here in Alberta too for $60. I don't think I'll be using the little headlight so that will reduce weight as it pops off easy.
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I haven't used that headset much yet so not sure what prolonged use will be like but shouldn't need to go for long spells. I have a lighted magnifying lamp that I can lay another magnifying glass on top the lens to get around 6X but then it's so close to the fly or rod that there's no room to manipulate the thread without bumping into it. I picked up a 4ft, 2 tube T-8 light fixture at the thrift store that has a nice pull switch right in the middle between the tubes. I'm going to hang that over my desk with the same kind of twisted chain and S hooks I've used for 20+ years to hang my grow lights so I can easily adjust the height as needed.
