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01 Jun 2020, 3:22 am

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listening to "pomp and circumstance no. 1" makes me emotional. not because of graduation from anything but because of the grandeur of the song is an aural version for me, of something like the most beautiful sunrise/sunset or grand canyon, just pure awe.


I’m going to listen to it with new ears now. :heart:

get the london phil/vernon handly/david bell conductor] version with pipe organ accompaniment.



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01 Jun 2020, 3:26 am

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listening to "pomp and circumstance no. 1" makes me emotional. not because of graduation from anything but because of the grandeur of the song is an aural version for me, of something like the most beautiful sunrise/sunset or grand canyon, just pure awe.


Hmmmm… that's probably a rather unique association. To me "Pomp and Circumstance" is just...pompous. Lol! Sorry. I just get images of the Royal Family playing croquet in front of a manor house, or like that. I get the kind of imagery you describe when I hear Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man". Your mind's eye looking through a camera while it slowly pans around the ruins of the Roman Coliseum, or a vista of the Grand Canyon. Something grand and majestic. Also "the 2001 theme" is really a movement in Strauss's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". And the movement is actually entitled "Daybreak" (a depiction of a sunrise).

my fave version is by karl boehm/berlin philharmonic, used in the movie "2001- a space odyssey" soundtrack. it is the ONLY recording which goes "duuummmmmmm, Duuuummmmmm, DUuuuuUUUUMMMM- DADAHHHHHHHH!" ALL the other ones end with "DAH....dahhh..." dullsville, man. :roll:



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01 Jun 2020, 5:43 am

My dad is going back to work and i am worried that he will get the coronavirus.
I also have no idea how i will go to work when i start working since i don't drive and public transit is very crowded.



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01 Jun 2020, 8:32 am

How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


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01 Jun 2020, 9:31 am

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Only one thing: I want to sleep. I want to sleep badly. I want to go home and sleep the s**t out of my bed.

i wish my back would let me sleep the sheet out of my bed.



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01 Jun 2020, 4:32 pm

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How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


no toilets???

the ocean is the biggest toilet imaginable

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i am reminded of dorothy and her magic red slippers, and what the good witch glinda told her about them.


that they would only come off if the wearer was dead?


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01 Jun 2020, 8:55 pm

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i am reminded of dorothy and her magic red slippers, and what the good witch glinda told her about them.


I guess we're not in Kansas anymore. 8)

There's no place like home.
Indeed, my heart is heavy and I'm exhausted in every way. I wish I could wake up from this interminable nightmare.


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01 Jun 2020, 11:01 pm

Ugh, what am I going to do over the next two weeks before my next doctor’s appointment (where we’ll probably just find that nope, even three weeks later my last iron infusion didn’t do a thing for me, since my symptoms have only been getting worse since then and it’s been more than three weeks since my other iron infusions, why would the fourth one finally work?)? I’m so bored. I have Animal Crossing on my Nintendo Switch, but that will only keep me busy for a few days, until I’ve gotten four of every new June collectible (one for the museum, three so I can get a model made whenever the right people come back, plus maybe one more, if I want to keep one for myself). I have plenty of books, but my oxygen-deprived brain isn’t always up to actually remembering a word of what I read. Cleaning in any way I can think of takes more energy than I have, weeding the front garden also does, and the same goes for getting the loppers out and trying to tame the woody plants out back, and even taking my dog for a walk is too much. Pretty much all I have the energy for these days is sitting around doing nothing, and after four months of this I’m really, really tired of that.


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02 Jun 2020, 1:58 am

Tried to relearn High School Math.

Turns out...


I was right the whole time.
It's the damn words and terms, not the numbers or logic itself. :lol:

Looking back, I've been a terrible listener and had highly relied so much on what's being written on the board -- and those were the times I couldn't even rely on reading.
Because I simply cannot keep up with most spoken words. Likely always had been this way. So it's either patterns or nonverbal memory -- words would likely muddled it.


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02 Jun 2020, 2:10 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
KT67 wrote:
How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


no toilets???

the ocean is the biggest toilet imaginable

auntblabby wrote:
i am reminded of dorothy and her magic red slippers, and what the good witch glinda told her about them.


that they would only come off if the wearer was dead?

no, that she always had the power to go back home.



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02 Jun 2020, 7:09 pm

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How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


no toilets???

the ocean is the biggest toilet imaginable

Yeah it's gross to pee or poo in the sea if you're over about 5. It's not meant to be a toilet. Obviously we all did it when we were tiny but not ok as big kids/teens/adults.

Social media is a mix between people talking about the protests & people talking about racism in general & people arguing if it's a totty scone or a tattie scone. That last one is making me :lol: ...


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02 Jun 2020, 7:37 pm

KT67 wrote:
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How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


no toilets???

the ocean is the biggest toilet imaginable

Yeah it's gross to pee or poo in the sea if you're over about 5. It's not meant to be a toilet. Obviously we all did it when we were tiny but not ok as big kids/teens/adults.

Social media is a mix between people talking about the protests & people talking about racism in general & people arguing if it's a totty scone or a tattie scone. That last one is making me :lol: ...


Well, where do you think marine creatures eliminate their waste? :wink: If you’re swimming in water inhabited by other animals, you’re probably swimming in their toilet, too. In my opinion, it’s perfectly fine to pee in the ocean, at least. Just try not to do it near other people, and the water will dilute it and wash it away.


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03 Jun 2020, 9:20 am

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KT67 wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
KT67 wrote:
How gross do you have to be to sit on a beach for hours knowing there's no toilets about? I mean hopefully those people have strong bladders...


no toilets???

the ocean is the biggest toilet imaginable

Yeah it's gross to pee or poo in the sea if you're over about 5. It's not meant to be a toilet. Obviously we all did it when we were tiny but not ok as big kids/teens/adults.

Social media is a mix between people talking about the protests & people talking about racism in general & people arguing if it's a totty scone or a tattie scone. That last one is making me :lol: ...


Well, where do you think marine creatures eliminate their waste? :wink: If you’re swimming in water inhabited by other animals, you’re probably swimming in their toilet, too. In my opinion, it’s perfectly fine to pee in the ocean, at least. Just try not to do it near other people, and the water will dilute it and wash it away.


It's not ok to poo and wee in the garden either even though cats do it. Human waste is different as far as other humans are concerned. Use a toilet. The exemptions to this are extreme poverty, extreme youth (nappies exist), extreme disability (again, nappies exist) or not being human. I sit out in the garden knowing there's cat waste but I wouldn't do that if there was a human poo there... :lol:

Someone said I don't have friends. They said it by implication but they said people you work with and people who you've only met a few times aren't your friends. Those are my only friends...


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03 Jun 2020, 2:05 pm

I WILL fix this. I promise myself.


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03 Jun 2020, 5:00 pm

My friend got treated like rubbish by his dad, didn't disown him. Disowns him now cos he says 'all lives matter' etc. I know why that's problematic atm but seriously? My friend is white, won't stand up for himself or his own sister or nephew, only for black people in America...


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03 Jun 2020, 7:18 pm

Remember, dragonsanddemons, sometimes all someone wants is to have a pity party without reality intruding. Just leave them to it instead of coming in with said reality, it won’t do any good.


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