The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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I suspect audio files to be seperate from video, would guess it might be a different type of host service, at least the file extensions (types) are different on the two. It might have a link if you installed software for the camara to computer link. I'd be leery of it and go with a well known freebie. I dislike some of the bundled softwaRE A LOT, THEY LIKE TO LOUD UP YOUR MACHINE WITH TRASH. (and no I didn't remove that damn cap lock key yet).

You almost killed me with your horse camp story, I choked on my chili. What a hoot, hope your head stopped hurting. And yes kiddies another good reason to not like horses, unless on the merry-go-round, thoroughly stuffed with a pole through their evul middles.

I got accused of the British accent too. I wonder, do British aspies get an American accent?

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OK.lets hear a cat joke with a britsh accent.

Krex, your collection is amazing and fascinating. I intend to go back and take a good look at everything.

As for accents, although I grew up in New Jersey, I got picked on at school for using odd spelling, (colour, faeries, grey, laundrey) and speaking in an English accent flawlessly. My mother used to jokingly call me her little Britisher. Go figure, LOL. I learned to suppress the accent later, but could bring it out to make others laugh.

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There's only so much that I buy of someone attributing things to being Aspie. You're pushing the envelope there, sir.

Arsnic and Old Lace. Damned funny movie. Well-written, well-acted, well directed.

Movies are not, however (unless we're talking "Faces of Death" or some snuff film) isolated cruelty or violence highlighted specifically for effect. I would assume whomever was laughing at a movie - mentioned in another post - at which the rest of the audience was not laughing - was amused with the situation, or the irony, the absurdity, or something along those lines. Hell, I find "Goodbye Earl" to be amusing - and it deals with wife-beating and homicide. But only as an aside to the irony, the absurdity, the story. That's pushing the boundaries of one of my lines, but it hasn't gone past it as it's primarily implied. If someone was being tortured to death in the movie and a watcher found the the torture itself to be "funny" - I'd give them a tremendously wide berth.

The Dr. Who (if that's what it was, sorry, I just had a hell of a commute home) clip - why not just show someone cutting someone's throat? Or ripping an arm off a kid to see the blood spurt out. You could do that in slomo, pixilize it, switch to b&w, all sorts of "interesting" visual effects. But the result would be the same. Focused violence/cruelty for its own sake, for amusement.

We all have "do not cross" lines in our heads. There's a point at which I disregard someone's "discussion" of what they've done or meant by something. People who are head-gamers quite often try to talk their way out of a situation once they realize they're not getting the response they'd wanted when they implemented it. People have also been known to lie through the teeth. Some people are just damned twisted and will say anything. At a given point, once the line is crossed, the motivation of whomever has crossed it no longer matters. The action/s is/are the benchmarks.

I'll go with my gut feelings - they've almost always proved accurate in my life. If they're not in this case, my apologies in advance. But I'll still stick with them for now. So now let the board go back to more bubbly, happy things.

I didn't create the clip, edit the clip, share the clip, send the sclip, post the clip, watch the clip more than 2 secnds, laugh at the clip, or like the clip.

OK?

Thanks Hartz....these are actually old pics...before I really started collecting. We can barely move in here now,it's become a bit of a problem.I think even someone with excutive function would have a challenge getting this place orginized.But I love my stuff and my animals.Have a hard time letting anything go.


ohhh,were getting close...party hats everyone.

Where's Lau?????Where's Chuck??????Merle put on the spiked heels,were getting ready to dance the rumba,(after you teach it to me).

Back to Quatermass:

As a way of an experiment I showed the video to my 24 year old daughter and her fiance who is 26. They viewed it separately with earphones on. I didn't tell them before hand of the child abuse comment nor my opinion of it. I just asked them to watch and write a brief review. This is what they said:

Jesse: Weird. Interesting. Good clip to send to someone that won't stop nagging you.

Ray: I don't get the clip. Maybe it's because I've never seen the program it was from. Just seems ridiculous to me.

When I told them about the child abuse comment they responded with:

Jesse: Child abuse? Where the hell are they pulling that from?
Ray: Child abuse? That's stupid.

When I asked them if they would let their 5 yr. old watch it they said:
Yeah, why not?

When I asked them what they thought of the movie "Natural Born Killers" they said;

Awesome movie. One of my favorites. The first movie we ever watched together. But now, with children, certain scenes are harder to take than before. We would never let our kids watch that movie until they were teenagers.


I am very much in agreement with Nan. Though I think the person who put this together is most likely a woman hater and not a child abuser. Unless the child was a "little" woman who talked too much. That troubles me.

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Chuck, where are you and I sure hope that I don't have to try to host this party. I don't throw good parties. And I can't remember Lau's list of necessities. Nan, HELP!

Krex, I think you may need to be in charge of dancing and games.

Krex, I really loved looking at your Jesus collection. I'll have to get mine together and show them to you.

Hi Hartz,

I have been asked many times if I was English or British. I don't have the Philly accent at all, probably because my family was from Northern Pa and pronounced their vowels differently. The Philly accent says "wouter" as in could or would for "water". I say wahter. But that's just one difference of many. Philly is sittin' instead of sitting. Pronouncing the ends of words clearly and not using a lot of contractions is always the sign of an outsider.

well. . .basically Franks and Beans. .

but with a Pinot Noir. . .pure heaven. . .

Prepare the night before to serve in the morning or early in the morning to serve in the evening. Look for a brisk day with a good breeze so the baking of the beans retains moisture but the crust keeps crisp.


Ingredients for 8 people : · 1.2kg ingot beans · 700g goose or duck conserve · 700g fresh Toulouse (pork) sausage · 250g fresh pork rind · 200g pork hock · 1 pig's trotter · 400g pork spare rib · 50g old bacon / pork fat · 2 garlic cloves · 1 onion stuck with a clove · 1 mixed bunch of thyme and bay leaves · 1 carrot · 1 leek · 1 stick of celery · Tomato paste · Salt · Pepper

Method:
Soak the dry beans overnight in cold water. Throw out that water. Put the beans in a saucepan of cold water and blanch them by bringing to the boil for 5 minutes. Throw out that water, too. At the same time, prepare a stock with the pork rind cut into large strips, pig's trotter, hock, onion stuck with a clove, thyme and bay leaves, carrot, leek, celery and a mince of crushed garlic and salted old bacon / pork fat.

Filter the stock, taking out the rind and the trotter. You need to have about twice as much volume of stock as volume of beans. Cook the beans in the stock for 1½-2 hours over low heat. The beans should be soft but still whole.

During the cooking, add 1 soup spoon of tomato paste for each kilo of beans. In a frying pan, remove the fat from the pieces of duck or goose conserve. Retrieve the pieces. In the resulting fat, brown the pork spare ribs. Retrieve and drain them. Finally, in the same fat, brown the sausages


With all these preparations finished, put all the ingredients in a deep earthenware dish (the cassole). You can rub it beforehand with a clove of garlic. Line the bottom of the dish with the rind, add the pig's trotter and a third of the beans.

Place the conserve then cover with the remaining beans. On top, place the sausages in a spiral and embed them gently in the beans. Finish by pouring the warm stock and the juice from the frying pan. Pepper the surface generously. Put the "cassole" in the oven at 150-164°C and let cook for 2-3 hours.

During the cooking, the top will develop a golden-brown crust that you should press down several time during the course of the cooking (people in the past said you should do it 7 times) without squashing the beans. At that time, check that the beans have not dried out, and if they do, add stock. Serve very hot, in the "cassole", of course.

sure, Lemon, once we put it all together, we can drink the Pinot and have a good chat.

Merle

Sounds a lot fancier then our southern "ham and bean soup"......just used beans,ham hock and carrot....crumble some cornbread on top....it's my favorite comfort food from the foster home.Nothing from a can even comes close and mine has never been as good as my foster "grandma"...but then,it never is,is it.

Your sounds wonderful Merle.Would you mind serving some for the party(we will all have to depart before we start to...."process the beans" )See,postie,I can do "bathroom humor"sort of...

CC,I would love to see your Jesus collection.I have several Catholic things(including some last rites crosses with the prayer,candle and holy water bottle inside).Also have one of those "purple things" priests/ministers? wear around their necks that I found dumpster diving...someone was having a crisis of faith,that day I also collect a lot of buddha stuff.(I dont want to have to pick between them,love them both.)I also like a lot of "paganish" type things.They all have some "magic" in them,to me.