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I do think credit is far too easy to obtain. I thank my lucky stars (and my grandmother) that I have no student debt.
I'm a saver too. It's rare for me to buy anything extraneous or to care about anything commercial.

Good for you, kortie. I could never do a marathon because I wouldn't want people looking at me.

Yes I enjoy it.

Would you rather regress to being five years old, or ten years old for a day?

Excessive debt played a major role in the last financial crisis, and the response of governments was to vastly increase their own borrowing while slashing interest rates to zero and even lower (effectively making savers pay for all this). Near zero interest rates have made it far easier to take on huge mortgages and have been responsible for massive rises in house prices in the UK and elsewhere - the London flat I bought for £35,000 in 1998 would now cost over £250,000. This is madness!

I also know of an ex-work colleague who ran up debts of almost £190,000, which he then defaulted on. At his insolvency hearing, he was only required to pay back £9,000 over three years, despite the fact that he had a very good, highly paid job. He had effectively stolen about £180,000 with no real consequences, owing to lax debt rules. If he had pointed a toy pistol at a passer-by in the street and robbed him or her of £100, he would probably have got five years or more in jail.....

END OF RANT!

I see there've been one or two more posts since I started typing this, but I might as well submit it anyway...

I liked being ten far more than I liked being five. At five, I was pretty much scared of everything.

Same question.

Deep,
Don't get me started on your second paragraph. I know grifters and scammers and con artists who do the same, and the government / legal system allows it to the detriment of society. It's a very personal and painful topic for me. I'm on your side, completely in disdain for low interest borrowing, or huge mortgages with low down payments which cost us all.

Grrr.

Rant over.

I would much rather be five again, too.

Do you listen to music while you cook?

I'm pretty neutral about it.

I'm sort of the type that wants to eat more than I want to cook LOL


Do you like music when you're taking a bath?

I always listen to music when I cook. I like to bop around the kitchen.

I occasionally listen to music during a bath, but not always. I'm usually so desirous of relaxation that I want quiet.
If I do play music it's very mellow.

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No just the sound of water is enough

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Reading over the past few pages, I feel guilty about having gone away. I was actually just about to set off for a few games of chess - hence the question. When all is said and done, I'm actually not a terribly good chess player at all. It's the pressure of having to perform that gets me - especially in front of others. I'm at my best, intellectually, when I have ample time and resources to come to my conclusions, as well as solitude; I need to let problems sort of stew - in my mind.

I used to be pretty good at athletics. I had to be. I remember being forced to do cross-country running in three inches of snow, LOL. This was only ten years or so ago. When people complain about my generation being weaklings and "snowflakes", I think about the snowy cross-country, sub-zero field hockey and torrential rugby we all had to endure - at least in my school. We didn't have it easy, at all. I actually remember having my chin pulled up by a primary school teacher who was shouting at me, ordering me to make eye contact. This was in (I think) 2005.

As for the bath question - I don't take baths. I don't listen to music either, except through headphones; music, for me, is a deeply personal experience, and I hate the idea of someone else overhearing my music. This is why I don't watch music being performed live, along with the fact that the last time I did, at the CBSO, I had a panic attack while Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla performed Beethoven's fifth symphony and couldn't leave.

If you could go back to the 1950s, with approximately the same degree of wealth and living situation as you enjoy now, would you?

Nope b/c mental health issues were not taken seriously neither in Canada or El Salvador during that decade even before getting into a tangent about asbestos in construction supplies, lead in water pipes, certain trends in philosophy not having caught on and several social mechanisms not being accommodating to minorities.

Do you think it's fair to say that as 'as a society' we need to learn to accept nudity being present in a non-sexual desiring way in order for transgender ppl to be accepted more?. I ask b/c I don't know how to feel about looking at clothless photos of ppl transitioning ?.

I don't think we need to see pictures of anyone undressed, trans or not, to understand basic human freedom.


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I hate nudity shoved in my face as I find it demeaning to the person if not them i find it demeaning because it cuts boundaries that should only be removed fr a trusted few eg doctors, partners

I remember the dumb hubbub about kate moss ads where she was nude and everyone acted like it was empowering
No
She admitted decades later she wept cried and hated it
The first few times she was made to do it she was what we wd call abused n manipulated into it
Even yrs later she said she hated it
So yeah
U dont know what is going on in the persons head so boundaries like clothing are important

Did u make progress in ur mental health journey in the past few years?

The last thing society needs is more sex or nudity. It has nothing to do with whether the naked bodies involved belong to transsexuals or not.

What's your favourite twentieth century film?

Sounder. 1972.

Great story about a sharecropper's boy who would do anything to get an education.

Plus, there's great blues music in it, too!


Same question.

Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938. Taxi Driver, 1976.

Do you have a favourite football (soccer) team?

I seldom watch any movies. I'm really bad at understanding them because I'm so face-blind and I don't understand motive and interpersonal. The movie that I usually say I "love" is Dead Poets Society, because it's my type of story. I'm sure it's nowhere near the best movie made in the 20th Century, though. Movies are really a downfall for me, almost like a learning disability.

As an aside, I saw Casablanca several times and I don't understand it at all.

I like Manchester.

blooie,
Yes, in terms of my C-PTSD I've recovered substantially. In terms of autism I'm rather "worse" if such a thing exists, because I'm not fighting it any more. I still have >99 percentile MDD and GAD but they're controlled if I stay reclusive.

same q (football)