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There's a scene in the children of prophecy by David Eddings, where Relg earthglides Silk out of a cave and Silk is one blubbering mess, saying something along the lines of, "Don't ever do that to me again", and they're like next to an enemy encampment. Doesn't stop him from doing it.
Keladry in Lady Knight sneaks into enemy territory to rescue her people but that doesn't stop her from having a conversation with Irma the child seer while in said enemy territory.
Darkwind, Elspeth and Firesong are in disguise trying to get to the capital of Haldorn to assassinate Ancar, the evil monarch. Doesn't stop them from remarking on the sad state of the land.
My guess is that the person in question is a younger male who's grown up playing tactical games such as Call of Duty and watching and admiring movies with military tactics in them. In the immediate theater of combat where you're surrounded by the enemy on their base or in their hideout, stealth and silence become key.
His poor spelling and discussion of "elite militia" reinforce this impression for me.
So when the only thing with which you're familiar is the immediate theater of combat, you start thinking that that's how the Marines behave everywhere. "Ohp. We're out of milk. Gotta leave the base and go to the supermarket. Quick, everyone! Radio silence! Spread out in tactical formation! We'll make the Circle K or die trying!"
I think you've made your point: If you know there are no enemies within a quarter mile, you're not going to refrain from conversation. Hand signals only take you so far, and, AFAIK, Marines aren't trained in ASL.
Yeah he asked me to watch Dunkirk then asked me to remove him from the game. I don't watch military movies to be honest. (Too depressing for my taste + I hate guns). The closest I ever got was Hunt for Red October. Maybe some mission impossible, taken, but I don't think they count.
The issue is the entire Ironfang Invasion is pretty much behind enemy lines. So if you're going to take that kind of attitude does that mean you are not going to talk the entire AP? If I wanted to just play a tactical wargame I could open up Warcraft III and do that against the AI or online I suppose. Or even the old red alert series.
You mean even talking about RPGs gets you nekkid?
*gets dressed*
Oh, I know TS's vice. He's in my camp. He's favorited every post I made that even mentioned weed. He's like the Tacticslion of bud.
Found some kratom leftover from the last time we gave it a try. It's like a mediocre, disgusting tasting weed you have to eat that's legal almost everywhere because reasons. This time we have capsules to put it in so I don't projectile vomit from the flavor. Hasn't kicked in yet. Seriously, it's foul tasting.
I've smoked exactly twice since college.
Everything is very funny until I get very sleepy, and I'm almost certain that I look very very stupid.
Also, the last time I smoked, I mixed pot and tequila, and I have never been so sick in all my life. It kind of put me off of weed forever.
This was a very long time ago... fifteen years, maybe?
Not long enough.
See, I know people who have puked from alcohol alone. If I smoked weed and drank and puked, I would quit drinking. Which I don't drink anyway. Logic.
This might be kicking in a little now.
I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
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So, my mother's doctor had to retire due to a back injury. She asked for a new insurance card with a new doctor on it. And what did the insurance company do? They sent her a new card with the old doctor's name on it. Seriously? WTF people? What part of "This doctor is retired" do these idiots not understand? My mother is seriously pissed right now. Monday morning, they and mother will have a conversation that they will not enjoy.So, to sum up current events, the new card was generated automatically on Dec. 13 and mailed. My mother will receive her new card by Friday or Saturday. She said to say "Thank you" to everyone for their well wishes.
Expected. My Aunts Ikea card was late and now they sent her two. I think the bigger the orgsnization, the less the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. I guess I don't get to growl at the doctor aftetall...
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*Politics*
I knew all that before.
That's completely and utterly old-hat to me (with the partial exception of NobodysHome's contributions and observations). I'm familiar with George Lakoff. As a matter of fact, part of the problem I've seen over the past 4 years is the melting of that paradigm you've been describing. BOTH PARTIES are now authoritarian, xenophobic, and anti-rational. If anything, I find what you're telling me to be dated. SOMETHING ELSE has been completely rewritten. While I spent the last several years reaching the conclusion that the core problem is the concept of group identity itself, somehow everybody else is now screaming "GROUP IDENTITY IS ALL THAT MATTERS!" Certain political currents that were liberating and mind-expanding not long ago have suddenly become repressive and Procrustean. I'm having the same sorts of brain-shredding arguments with Democrats I used to have with Republicans. I feel more alienated than ever before. I feel like I'm being walled up and my existence systematically erased, like a higher-tech "Cask of Amontillado". The more people talk about "inclusivity and diversity", the less there is of it.
If it offers any perspective, you're talking to someone who read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the school year of 2000-2001. I get the sense that that's not typical.
Who, or what, is "alt-left"? Am I "alt-left"?
Why do I feel like I am being actively brainwashed, like I'm an early-1990s computer having a horseshoe magnet scraped across its back? I can no longer distinguish personal dysfunction from others' dysfunction, nor "It's not me, it's society" from my own brain succumbing to schizophrenia or worse.
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I have little/no interest in US politics, being not even a critter that lives in the States. Even more so since its not something I can do anything about(I don't have voting rights for States, duh). Usually my forays into politics lie more into accidentally falling into it, like discussing guns(hey, how was I supposed to know it was politicised), or touching on it with Vidmaster7 on his late night on philosophical aspects of law, nature of power, governance. When I get philosophical, which is rarely.
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Did I tell you about the latest IRAS fk up? Now I called in IRAS before, they said they automatically update company profiles off the company database.
Me: Goody! Saves me writing them a letter telling them we've moved.
Several months later...
We miss out a letter from IRAS, because turns out one of the entities is a group entity and it doesn't auto update.
Now had I known that we also had a group entity thingy besides the individual companies, I would have asked IRAS about it, but no one told me about it...
So I wrote in and told them, dude, we've moved.
And received no reply for 2 days. So I got irritated and called them to growl at them over the phone and got an email acknowledging the change of address that very hour.
Different strokes. Alcohol's smell makes me nauseated.
I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've never smoked weed. Seriously. I can't stand the smell of a lit joint. To me, it smells like a combination of a sweaty armpit, a used diaper (with a number 2 in it) and Skunk musk. If it's a high enough concentration, I become nauseated and physically ill.
WW is the same. When he was an RA in college, one of his friends (yes, and they're still friends almost thirty years later) used to blow smoke under his door just to taunt him.
After he got expelled, he went straight and joined the army. He's still there, and will eventually retire, but he's got a lot of salad on his uniform and he likes the career officer life.
I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've had it a few times.
I was disappointed that I didn't love it as much as I was expecting to.I felt my inner Bohemian artiste was letting me down.
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Welcome to 2019. Now, cut those f***ing fireworks down! *shakes cane*
(I'm hanging out watching FaWtL because (a) I'm avoiding cleaning house and doing laundry and cooking, and (b) I told the kids no movie until they cleaned their room, and I'm waiting.)
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I don't really care for alcohol.
Also, I might be getting a mild fever...
Ah, well, another round of Gripex will be in order later tonight.
The smell of both is awful to my senses, as is the taste of alchol (especially the cheap kind). I have likewise never smoked.
This is likewise where I am. And the smell of smoke that bothers me is both weed and tobacco. Neither I find pleasant.
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*Politics*** spoiler omitted **
All of that stuff was new news to me. I am only a recent (as in, within the past 5-6 years) escapee from being a Republican in all but name, and defining myself as a highly right-wing Libertarian who more often than not was annoyed at the Republicans for not being right-wing enough. It took the stupidity of McCain's AND what's-his-face's campaigns to just barely start to shake that foundation, and Trump to completely break me of that mindset.
I was under the impression that all this was fairly new, or at least an observation that only really became public understanding within a fairly recent time (aka, within the past 4 or 5 years at the high end).
That this is apparently not just old news but that it's old news that is no longer accurate because things have somehow gotten even worse is so beyond my current level of capability for processing that I'm not at all sure what to do with it.
Short version: I cannot help you. Sorry.
I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've had it a few times.
I was disappointed that I didn't love it as much as I was expecting to.
I felt my inner Bohemian artiste was letting me down.
there are so many different makers it isn't funny. We will find one to your liking.
I will not smoke anything. I have no particular issue with cranabris otherwise, aside from the fact that it really doesn't agree with me; might try edibles again at some point, but I know they'll put me out for days, given how oooold I am.
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there are so many different makers it isn't funny. We will find one to your liking.I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've had it a few times.
I was disappointed that I didn't love it as much as I was expecting to.
I felt my inner Bohemian artiste was letting me down.
I hear it's a romantic drink. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, after all.
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So ended up in the ER today. I would call the pain about an 8 10 being the worst I've ever felt. The Dr said I probably had a gallbladder blockage. also morphine is a heck of a drug. I'm better now.
That sucks!
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I go out at 10 PM to do battle with the evil forces of the nefarious Doctor Snowglobe.
Or at least that's what I'm telling myself to make it more exciting.
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Oh thats good I like it. I wanna try.
Today I battle the great beast gallbladder with the help of the powerful wizard Morphine the numb. It turned out the beast just had a rock stuck in an uncomfortable place me and morphine help the beast and it agreed to stop terrorizing the country side as long as I cut back on fatty foods.
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I hear it's a romantic drink. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, after all.there are so many different makers it isn't funny. We will find one to your liking.I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've had it a few times.
I was disappointed that I didn't love it as much as I was expecting to.
I felt my inner Bohemian artiste was letting me down.
That sounds awful, Vid! Glad you're better!
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@ I'm Hiding:
I don't know what 'alt-left' means either, and I don't see your comments about both parties reflected in what I see. Both you and NH's comments strike me as very 'both-sides'-y.
I did start reading A People's History of the United States a few years ago, I should finish it. I can probably get it on Audible, thanks for the reminder!
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Did they disintegrate the gallstone with a devastating SONIC ATTACK?
Regardless, that doesn't sound like much fun at all - glad it's been sorted!
Hope you feel better quickly, Vid!
Vid, heal up man
Get well soon Vid!
Most flights do serve some kind of alcohol. But it usually costs extra, rather than being covered as part of your fare like the crackers/cookies/peanuts and soda they offer.
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there are so many different makers it isn't funny. We will find one to your liking.I also almost never get drunk, unless I'm at the Ersatz Russian's house.
When I drink too much, I think I'm very witty and everyone adores me, and in reality, I'm just a mean a******. Or I'm loudly maudlin and think I can sing Irish folk/the blues much better than I actually can.
I hate the resulting shame even more than I hate the loss of control.
so...
Is that a no on the absinthe?
I've had it a few times.
I was disappointed that I didn't love it as much as I was expecting to.
I felt my inner Bohemian artiste was letting me down.
I wanted to ask for one on the flight to states but was afraid of violating laws, so I didn't. Even though the air steward said they had more drinks then I could imagine, I don't think they have absinthe.
Maybe I should try shovelling snow. Its an upper body workout, right?I go out at 10 PM to do battle with the evil forces of the nefarious Doctor Snowglobe.
Or at least that's what I'm telling myself to make it more exciting.
It's an all body workout. So much walking! Plus every bag of salt is fifty pounds, and the snowblower is about 40-60 pounds (it's a Toro so it's pretty light, for a snowblower).
It's about endurance more than anything, with three inches of snow I should be out for 10-15 hours.
It's the holidays so who knows how many people will be there.
Glad you're okay Vid!
.... 50 pounds is nearly half my weight. I hope you aren't expecting me to carry it. As with the snow blower as well...
Oh no, you put the salt in a bucket (as much as you can handle, no need to over fill it) and the snowblower you just have to lift from the back of the truck (of course you won't have to lift it by yourself).
So kratom is okay. It's a mild high. You don't get that mentally inebriated. It's more relaxing and a body high. You just feel relaxed. Dollar for dollar, not nearly worth it compared to alternatives, but when you have nothing else, it's not bad. Not a horrible way to bring in the New Year, but by far not the choice I would've gone with.
The kids picked the new "A Wrinkle in Time" for their NYE movie, because we all loved the book.
We're only half an hour in, and so far I want to slap the everloving s**t out of the stupid chirpy redhead, the screenwriter, the director, and whoever was in charge of casting pretty much every character except Meg.