I pretty much drink any kind of tea known to humans. Sometimes nekkid too.
*puts on clothes*
me-OW!
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Thank you, everyone. Please continue to spread the word, if you can.
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There has to be an entire comedy routine about the differences between redneck and hillbilly children.
I'm working on it.
I started up my old bipolar meds again. Even if they didn't keep me from being depressed, clearly I was getting in some bad mixed episodes.
But I'm not immune to criticism, and when it was pointed out I have been reacting...severely...to things, I realized I was fooling myself thinking it was just my anxiety. So I'm building back up to my regular dose. *sigh* Stupid weight gaining always tired seroquel. At least it didn't cause akasthesia like all the others. And I looked up Seroquel withdrawals, and holy s$%# is anxiety high on that list. Should've looked that up earlier. Good thing I started back up. Weening up again.
I got medicaid approved today. Four times denied in Florida after eight tons of paperwork, and Ohio approves me over the phone. Food stamps too. I don't want to be a sponge, so I'm looking for work, but it's nice to know we have help. I don't want to just suck on a government teat, though. I want to be normal. For whatever capability of normal I have as a guy who needs to take the same pills as someone with auditory and visual hallucinations.
Oh and I have a doctor to see tomorrow. So I feel like I was productive. I also cleaned so much ferret poop. Buddy is going on his own sometimes, but it seems to be out of his control. His roommate uses the litter boxes but seems to think digging in the littet and throwing it everywhere is fun.
And ferrets are NOT scared of vacuum clraners like dogs or cats. Crippled Buddy tried to jump it as I was cleaning litter up. Spirited little bastard!
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I wish I could help. I really do. You guys have always been so great to me. Anything non-fiscal I can contribute? Should I share your gfm link? I only have like 30 friends online but maybe one will be generous.
Ah man I just realized I forgot tonight was an open mic. Damnit. And I had a routine all about West Virginia highways. (Someone seems to have forgotten the shortest way between two points is a straight line. WV highways look like someone dropped a bowl of spaghetti on the map and said "f!*% it that's the highways". I know there's mountains, but regular Virginia had TUNNELS. See that's why Virginia has no prefix and West Virginia is a s+!*ty spinoff state. Yep. WV is the Cleveland Show of the US.)
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I got medicaid approved today. Four times denied in Florida after eight tons of paperwork, and Ohio approves me over the phone. Food stamps too. I don't want to be a sponge, so I'm looking for work, but it's nice to know we have help. I don't want to just suck on a government teat, though. I want to be normal. For whatever capability of normal I have as a guy who needs to take the same pills as someone with auditory and visual hallucinations.
So guess what? Needing help IS normal.
I'm an upper middle class white male. Yet I have had THREE friends become homeless: A white female through drug addiction, a white male through sheer stubbornness, and a black female through failures of her family. All three of them looked to their friends: Sleeping on couches, bumming meals. Sometimes it was enough (the non-drug-addicts), sometimes it wasn't.
And when all else fails, it's the government's job to step in. Because let's face it: Any government that cannot provide food, shelter, and basic medical care for its citizens in times of need has no business calling itself a First World country.
Accept the help. Be grateful. Grumble a little less next time you pay your taxes.
But if the government isn't there to assist you when you are in need, then why, exactly does it exist in the first place?
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** spoiler omitted **I wish I could help. I really do. You guys have always been so great to me. Anything non-fiscal I can contribute? Should I share your gfm link? I only have like 30 friends online but maybe one will be generous.
Ah man I just realized I forgot tonight was an open mic. Damnit. And I had a routine all about West Virginia highways. (Someone seems to have forgotten the shortest way between two points is a straight line. WV highways look like someone dropped a bowl of spaghetti on the map and said "f$$* it that's the highways". I know there's mountains, but regular Virginia had TUNNELS. See that's why Virginia has no prefix and West Virginia is a s&@~ty spinoff state. Yep. WV is the Cleveland Show of the US.)
Yes, you can share the link.
And hey, Cleveland Show was AWESOME!
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There has to be an entire comedy routine about the differences between redneck and hillbilly children.I'm working on it.
I started up my old bipolar meds again. Even if they didn't keep me from being depressed, clearly I was getting in some bad mixed episodes.
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I got medicaid approved today. Four times denied in Florida after eight tons of paperwork, and Ohio approves me over the phone. Food stamps too. I don't want to be a sponge, so I'm looking for work, but it's nice to know we have help. I don't want to just suck on a government teat, though. I want to be normal. For whatever capability of normal I have as a guy who needs to take the same pills as someone with auditory and visual hallucinations.
Oh and I have a doctor to see tomorrow. So I feel like I was productive. I also...
Do NOT feel bad about needing and using public services. You ARE NOT a sponge. You are person who is in a bad situation and needs help. The government is here to work for YOU, not the other way around.
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All that stuff.
Besides, being a sponge is my shtick!
So, West Virginia was cancelled because it was better than Virginia... No, the Cleveland Show analogy doesn't fit.
Oh no, that means Vidmaster Not John is about to arrive.
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Its true.
On all accounts.
Also I like that alias.
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I'll just state as an observation that Asians don't really like asking for handouts, consequentially Asian countries tend to be lower on taxes, but also lower on social benefits.
And I've just watched a couple of people run past me(and tried to keep up with them) and I realize that when it comes to running, I have a loong way to go. Time to run back.
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Okay, time for a bit of an update...
** spoiler omitted **I wish I could help. I really do. You guys have always been so great to me. Anything non-fiscal I can contribute? Should I share your gfm link? I only have like 30 friends online but maybe one will be generous.
Ah man I just realized I forgot tonight was an open mic. Damnit. And I had a routine all about West Virginia highways. (Someone seems to have forgotten the shortest way between two points is a straight line. WV highways look like someone dropped a bowl of spaghetti on the map and said "f$$* it that's the highways". I know there's mountains, but regular Virginia had TUNNELS. See that's why Virginia has no prefix and West Virginia is a s&@~ty spinoff state. Yep. WV is the Cleveland Show of the US.)
Yes, you can share the link.
And hey, Cleveland Show was AWESOME!
I think I finally understand freehold hes like a example of everyone is different where he can both make sense and offer good insight but also like terrible shows and hate good ones. he's like a paradox of outliers. I can't respect that.
I pretty much drink any kind of tea known to humans. Sometimes nekkid too.
*puts on clothes*
have you ever considered becoming one of those Egyptian bald cats. It would save you a step however it would probably be a lot colder.
I'll just state as an observation that Asians don't really like asking for handouts, consequentially Asian countries tend to be lower on taxes, but also lower on social benefits.
And I've just watched a couple of people run past me(and tried to keep up with them) and I realize that when it comes to running, I have a loong way to go. Time to run back.
I've heard that before. The way it was described to me (paraphrased) is that asian culture tends to embrace a more collectivist societal sense of value then a singular individual sense of value. So they work very hard on not causing problem for others. It has its ups and downs. I think the prof who was talking about it linked it to suicide rates.
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I saw this advert when I was in the movie theater with my BF yesterday. Yes, it made me sniffle a bit inside. Basically how Singaporeans treat people with mental problems is they try to shove it in a corner and pretend it doesn't exist.
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Wiki suicide rates by country. Looking at the map, Asia is pretty much in orange which beats most of America which is red.
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About people with weird tastes, don’t get too hard on them. Like for example me:
The stuff I would be willing to eat borders on questionable, macabre, possibly even ghoulish. But pass me something perfectly normal, like a spicy bowl of chicken curry, or maybe a roast habanero chicken and I’d run away screaming.
Hint: It’s the spice. I don’t take spiciness well. I’m a wimp.
I'm gonna save that roast habernero chicken recipe for later mmm. I'm actually making a red curry tomorrow.
No different is fine. Obviously someone had to of liked "those" shows or liked the strange foods otherwise we would probably not even hear about it.
Just as long as we are not running around claiming the earth is flat and Australia is a myth.
(really I just haven't got to use that alias VVV in a long time)
I'm not FLAT!
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For weird stuff I just had a grass jelly drink without sugar.
Stuff like that is what makes me wonder how people ever invented some kinds of food. For that one I'm betting famine.
18 How does that happen WTF? Yeah things lik that make me glad I'm night shift we are only over sold by 2 for this weekend and thats easy enough to fix.
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Well my friend speculates us Chinese eat everything because China was ruled by a whole bunch of incompetent emperors, so the people were starving and had to scavenge what they could, then acquired a taste for it.
Actually it's fine if you drink it with syrup, since without, it's slightly bitter. Just ask Hi. If he remembers, that is. Of course on SG food tours we tried to get the stuff you wouldn't commonly be able to find in US.
He agreed that it was pretty good, and next time he'll be looking out for it.
Its nice to be able to blame IT but in my experience some human at some point Changed a date wrong or didn't hit a button they were suppose to. or just said Eh screw it let them deal with it.
I've had that happen before too actually mort. Usually though its only like 2-3 rooms. something like 18 has to be human error ha.
Usually the third party booking websites will over book us because they don't update there numbers often enough so we might just sell out but then they go and sell another 5 rooms during the hour before they update.
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I'm hoping my mom will let me cook pig heart tonight. It's raining and 77F. A good stir fried pig heart should warm me up.
Can't do hearts. Always taste way to irony. Can't stand a strong blood taste. When I was a teen I had my tonsils out and I let myself get dehydrated So I started bleeding.
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Sorry if I brought it up. Eh. Yeah that's just to the point that we're all different. I did tell you about the kway chap, before, haven't I?
Oh that does not look appetizing at all. It looks like reverse haggis. In our area the Bizarre food is rocky mountain oysters. Which is basically goat testicles.
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I would take those, not bat an eyelash, since they're all cooked (fried) already.
Pig organ soup is also quite common in South East Asia. Heck, I had it for breakfast in Cambodia and it was pretty good.
Nope hard pass. You are more adventurous with your palette then myself hands down.
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You are looking at the wrong map.
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Well, I also spent my time in Cambodia with mild diarrhoea ;) But as long as I wasn't puking my guts out I was like, fine, I'll live with it. And hitting more local food stores just to try out new stuff.
The only people who didn't get any diarrhoea were those who weren't born in Singapore. Singaporean stomachs are wimpy.
I figured that whatever I ate I was still going to get it anyway, so why the hell not try everything local =D When I go overseas I usually look for crazy stuff to try ;)
Like in Hokkaido I was eating pickled squid guts and liked it. My BF was like urgghh...Hokkaido food didn't go very well with him because he's not a seafood person and a lot of it is sashimi.
Of course with me, I'm one super happy cat. Did you just put the cat with the fish?
I like Sashimi. I think organs are where I'm a little hesitant.
I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.
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Shiokara. If it's an acquired taste, I never noticed since I acquired a taste for it the moment I started eating it.
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I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.
Then there's the paleo diet where you try to eat like your caveman ancestors, eating only those foods that humans ate when they first roamed the planet millions of years ago.
Shiokara. If it's an acquired taste, I never noticed since I acquired a taste for it the moment I started eating it.
Yeah I'm good avoiding any food that mentions viscera as a descriptor.
I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.Then there's the paleo diet where you try to eat like your caveman ancestors, eating only those foods that humans ate when they first roamed the planet millions of years ago.
I guess they don't mention the average life expectancy of a cave man with that one. (Its 30 btw. hey I'm old for a cave man.)