The_Face_of_Boo
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01 Jul 2020, 7:03 am
You think my pic may end up on some porn site? 
02 Jul 2020, 6:38 am
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
rather brave posting RL pic on public forum, I am not so brave. I wish it were OK but my heart tells me no
you are probably too hard on yourself. if i can post my modestly moping mug on WP then just about anybody else could.
Your profile pic is for real?
no, it is in one of the "post a pic" threads from several years back. the profile pic is of actor Art Carney in character as "Henry Corwin" a thoroughly dissipated department store santa in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Night of the meek."
Aw man I will never find that. That's what I thought, it looked like something from the Twilight Zone. I am sure I saw that episode--I saw them all, twice.
watch your PM, por favor
I think I found your picture.
I wasn't looking for it.
You had long hair, right?
02 Jul 2020, 6:41 am
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
rather brave posting RL pic on public forum, I am not so brave. I wish it were OK but my heart tells me no
you are probably too hard on yourself. if i can post my modestly moping mug on WP then just about anybody else could.
Here's the thing man.
You put your pic on the Internet and unknown peeps will grab it from now until eternity.
It can pop up during divorce, hiring process @ corporate HR, lawsuit, criminal case, stalker, the list goes on.
I've always pursued light anonymity, to where law enforcement certainly could trace me but corporate HR or lawyers could not. I obey the law and do not feel like I have anything to fear on that score but it is possible to get fired, demoted, reassigned, and to have a bad outcome in a divorce case and so on based on what you post on the Internet.
That's just the world we live in.
it's a mean world, man.
Yeah and you know, it is O.K. to share with me as I am a good person or strive to be, however I wouldn't make a habit out of it. I don't know, I see myself typing these words in, then I think, Facebook! D'oh! Everybody and their brother is sharing their photo and personal info these days.
Well maybe I'm an old fogie but I tell you, people do get in trouble from what they share on Facebook.
Just the fact that an employer could potentially connect the dots from an applicant to Asperger's syndrome is enough reason to be cautious. I don't know that there is any discrimination protection for this sort of thing, even so, how enforceable?
I believe Aunty is retired(?)
And so am I,
Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
auntblabby
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02 Jul 2020, 9:56 am
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
rather brave posting RL pic on public forum, I am not so brave. I wish it were OK but my heart tells me no
you are probably too hard on yourself. if i can post my modestly moping mug on WP then just about anybody else could.
Your profile pic is for real?
no, it is in one of the "post a pic" threads from several years back. the profile pic is of actor Art Carney in character as "Henry Corwin" a thoroughly dissipated department store santa in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Night of the meek."
Aw man I will never find that. That's what I thought, it looked like something from the Twilight Zone. I am sure I saw that episode--I saw them all, twice.
watch your PM, por favor
I think I found your picture.
I wasn't looking for it.
You had long hair, right?
there are several WPers with hair longer than mine, my pics were about 5 years back, one in a paisley jacket and the other shirtless with "teen beat" hair.
auntblabby
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02 Jul 2020, 9:58 am
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
Gentleman Argentum
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02 Jul 2020, 10:49 am
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
Sounds lovely to me. That's what I'm shooting for, a modest pension, lol. Livin' the dream!
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02 Jul 2020, 11:00 am
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
Sounds lovely to me. That's what I'm shooting for, a modest pension, lol. Livin' the dream!
it helps tremendously to live in a relatively cheap part of the nation. if this were seattle i'd be livin' under a bridge someplace. out here in smogberry tree land, i can actually afford my own little tin can out in the woods.
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03 Jul 2020, 5:02 am
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
Sounds lovely to me. That's what I'm shooting for, a modest pension, lol. Livin' the dream!
it helps tremendously to live in a relatively cheap part of the nation. if this were seattle i'd be livin' under a bridge someplace. out here in smogberry tree land, i can actually afford my own little tin can out in the woods.
There's no way I'd live in any high-priced urban zone, no way, money's too dear to me. Seattle in particular, no way, I used to think of myself as liberal but they have taken the concept liberal and twisted it into something I don't recognize. Or maybe it is just the headlines I read about Seattle. CHOP zone took the cake, that's it for Seattle.
Tin can out in the woods sounds great to me. Low cost! Privacy! Hopefully no nasty gun-shooting, loud music playing, meth-head neighbors, I guess that is the main criteria anywhere. Out in the country, the main thing is, do you have decent internet, and second, are your neighbors crazy enough to break in and steal your stuff? Lot of crime happens out in the country.
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03 Jul 2020, 7:00 am
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
There's no way I'd live in any high-priced urban zone, no way, money's too dear to me. Seattle in particular, no way, I used to think of myself as liberal but they have taken the concept liberal and twisted it into something I don't recognize. Or maybe it is just the headlines I read about Seattle. CHOP zone took the cake, that's it for Seattle. Tin can out in the woods sounds great to me. Low cost! Privacy! Hopefully no nasty gun-shooting, loud music playing, meth-head neighbors, I guess that is the main criteria anywhere. Out in the country, the main thing is, do you have decent internet, and second, are your neighbors crazy enough to break in and steal your stuff? Lot of crime happens out in the country.
nothing is an unmixed blessing in this hellworld, mon frere
- there are gun-shootin' overall-wearin' shitty-music-blasting truculent types out here [and the odd meth head further out in the sticks], distance between us is the ultimate peacemaker. with enough space the most incompatible types can co-exist. if somebody busted into my place with me in it, they'd get medicated with lead pills. the county/city DA said due to budget cuts, not enough flatfoots to help us out so we would have to help ourselves with such. your home is your castle. basically a mixture of latin americans who keep strictly to themselves and speak only latin spanish, and old white dudes with red maga hats and trump bumper stickers and nasty dissocially ASPD attitudes. but my property taxes average about $380/year. that is 1/10th what i had to pay when i lived closer to civilization. the groceries here are about 1/3rd as expensive as they are in the big city. traffic on the main highway is nasty, however. live about 40 minutes outside of the wide spot in the road county seat.
03 Jul 2020, 7:02 am
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Gentleman Argentum wrote:
rather brave posting RL pic on public forum, I am not so brave. I wish it were OK but my heart tells me no
you are probably too hard on yourself. if i can post my modestly moping mug on WP then just about anybody else could.
Your profile pic is for real?
no, it is in one of the "post a pic" threads from several years back. the profile pic is of actor Art Carney in character as "Henry Corwin" a thoroughly dissipated department store santa in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Night of the meek."
Aw man I will never find that. That's what I thought, it looked like something from the Twilight Zone. I am sure I saw that episode--I saw them all, twice.
watch your PM, por favor
I think I found your picture.
I wasn't looking for it.
You had long hair, right?
there are several WPers with hair longer than mine, my pics were about 5 years back, one in a paisley jacket and the other shirtless with "teen beat" hair.
You said your hair grew slowly.
A 1/4 inch per month(?)
You were bare-chested in that one.
03 Jul 2020, 7:05 am
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
You looked too young, in the picture, to have an old age pension.
I haven't reached retirement age either.
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03 Jul 2020, 7:06 am
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03 Jul 2020, 7:09 am
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
You looked too young, in the picture, to have an old age pension.
I haven't reached retirement age either.
i will be 6 decades on this hellworld, in a few months. i am like the inverse of dorian gray's painting, my actual exterior ain't too badly aged but my insides are about 10 years older than the outside. i am past civil service retirement age here. civil service pension. social security [if the GOP doesn't steal it from me] in about 3 years. then medicare 2 years after that [ditto the thieving lying psychopathic GOP], only THEN i will be truly retired.
03 Jul 2020, 7:28 am
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
I believe Aunty is retired(?) And so am I, Hence, not worried about my avatar profile shot of me.
i don't dare say that word, that is challenging the fates to make it un-so. i am, however, unemployed with a modest pension that i had to fight the magas to get.
You looked too young, in the picture, to have an old age pension.
I haven't reached retirement age either.
i will be 6 decades on this hellworld, in a few months. i am like the inverse of dorian gray's painting, my actual exterior ain't too badly aged but my insides are about 10 years older than the outside. i am past civil service retirement age here. civil service pension. social security [if the GOP doesn't steal it from me] in about 3 years. then medicare 2 years after that [ditto the thieving lying psychopathic GOP], only THEN i will be truly retired.
I retired at 50.
I really don't need much money to live.
Here in Oz, I would need to be 67 to get a pension now, I believe.
Retirement is great, huh?
I mean not having work pressure on you all the time.
I could never go through that again.
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03 Jul 2020, 7:50 am
Pepe wrote:
I retired at 50. I really don't need much money to live. Here in Oz, I would need to be 67 to get a pension now, I believe. Retirement is great, huh? I mean not having work pressure on you all the time. I could never go through that again.
nobody would hire me now even if i wanted a job. i do get the odd paying gig fixing damaged old audio. computers can do magical things compared to the old analog days. i finally have the right kinda employment now, that of being a bump on a log.
the GOP has its stone heart set on eliminating retirement altogether for the working class and the lower part of the middle class. as it is, full social security retirement age here is now 70, 62 for a substantial haircut.
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03 Jul 2020, 5:02 pm
auntblabby wrote:
nothing is an unmixed blessing in this hellworld, mon frere - there are gun-shootin' overall-wearin' shitty-music-blasting truculent types out here [and the odd meth head further out in the sticks], distance between us is the ultimate peacemaker. with enough space the most incompatible types can co-exist. if somebody busted into my place with me in it, they'd get medicated with lead pills. the county/city DA said due to budget cuts, not enough flatfoots to help us out so we would have to help ourselves with such. your home is your castle. basically a mixture of latin americans who keep strictly to themselves and speak only latin spanish, and old white dudes with red maga hats and trump bumper stickers and nasty dissocially ASPD attitudes. but my property taxes average about $380/year. that is 1/10th what i had to pay when i lived closer to civilization. the groceries here are about 1/3rd as expensive as they are in the big city. traffic on the main highway is nasty, however. live about 40 minutes outside of the wide spot in the road county seat.
- there are gun-shootin' overall-wearin' shitty-music-blasting truculent types out here [and the odd meth head further out in the sticks], distance between us is the ultimate peacemaker. with enough space the most incompatible types can co-exist. if somebody busted into my place with me in it, they'd get medicated with lead pills. the county/city DA said due to budget cuts, not enough flatfoots to help us out so we would have to help ourselves with such. your home is your castle. basically a mixture of latin americans who keep strictly to themselves and speak only latin spanish, and old white dudes with red maga hats and trump bumper stickers and nasty dissocially ASPD attitudes. but my property taxes average about $380/year. that is 1/10th what i had to pay when i lived closer to civilization. the groceries here are about 1/3rd as expensive as they are in the big city. traffic on the main highway is nasty, however. live about 40 minutes outside of the wide spot in the road county seat.lol well I guess that's how it is out in the country, your gun protects you. But you know crooks have this habit of busting in while you're not at home. They don't tend to seek out those lead pills you mentioned, they prefer avoiding that stuff. Yeah, low property tax sounds good.
I have been toying with the idea of moving further out, maybe after I retire, live way out in the sticks. I guess as long as you have a good cellular signal, you can get half-way decent internet. Around here, if you live in the country then you sacrifice internet. People tell me they only get 5 megs down, 1 up. And it's expensive, like $100/mo.
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