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honey_honey_12 wrote: »I’ve only broken one bone in my life and it happened 3yrs ago.
I managed to get through my entire childhood without breaking anything then mangled my left ring finger at 56.
How did you do that Mel? Has it healed ok?1 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »I’ve only broken one bone in my life and it happened 3yrs ago.
I managed to get through my entire childhood without breaking anything then mangled my left ring finger at 56.
I once broke a finger by 'ending' a fist-fight.
..... 100% self-defense.3 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »I’ve only broken one bone in my life and it happened 3yrs ago.
I managed to get through my entire childhood without breaking anything then mangled my left ring finger at 56.
How did you do that Mel? Has it healed ok?
I was really sick, dehydrated, no food for 4days, passing out every time I stood.
I only remember screaming as I passed out and fell. 🙄
No, it healed all screwed up, I’m going to need surgery. Ugh.3 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »I’ve only broken one bone in my life and it happened 3yrs ago.
I managed to get through my entire childhood without breaking anything then mangled my left ring finger at 56.
How did you do that Mel? Has it healed ok?
I was really sick, dehydrated, no food for 4days, passing out every time I stood.
I only remember screaming as I passed out and fell. 🙄
No, it healed all screwed up, I’m going to need surgery. Ugh.
I hope they fix it without too much pain involved 🤗1 -
The only time I've broken a bone in my life was in teaching my second son how to walk, little man holding onto my two index fingers as I walked behind him barefoot. One step I was swinging my foot forward when he lost balance and planted his leg right in my path just as my pinkie toe got there. Heard a loud crack like a gunshot, and at first was only concerned with not trampling my son as I fell. Only after I was on the ground did the pain hit, lol.
Because it was my pinkie toe with such tiny bones, the doc said no splint needed, just taped my pinkie to the next toe in line, gave me a prescription for ibuprofen and two weeks' exemption from running (I was military at the time).
Fast forward 16 years and my toe is so curled up in a ball it looks nothing like the rest of my toes. (Doesn't seem to hamper my ability to balance or exert force with my foot, just looks weird.)1 -
Forgot about breaking my toe until you said that. Kicked the dog.
I was used to feeding 40 pound bags, but for some reason we had 50 pound bags for a while. I was barefoot, walking across the driveway, carrying more weight than I was used to, and almost more than I could handle, when the dog came running by and ran into me. I tripped, tried not to fall, and somehow while flailing around trying to stay upright, kicked the dog hard. I don’t know who was more surprised or more hurt, him or me. At least he didn’t have any broken bones.0 -
I believe in Bigfoot 🦧6
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@honey_honey_12 It's true I have really big feet!!!!3
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Would you disagrees like to say why you disagree with me believing?
Why do you care what I believe?
I had the guts to say it,
I’ll back it up, will you?
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honey_honey_12 wrote: »Would you disagrees like to say why you disagree with me believing?
Why do you care what I believe?
I had the guts to say it,
I’ll back it up, will you?
I gave it a
all I know is that I love watching documentaries on them! 2 -
OleTroubadour wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »Would you disagrees like to say why you disagree with me believing?
Why do you care what I believe?
I had the guts to say it,
I’ll back it up, will you?
I gave it a all I know is that I love watching documentaries on them!
I knew you did. 💓
I like them too.
I don’t know what they are, I don’t believe all the sightings.
Some I do, they are something more than men in ape suits imo.1 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »OleTroubadour wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »Would you disagrees like to say why you disagree with me believing?
Why do you care what I believe?
I had the guts to say it,
I’ll back it up, will you?
I gave it a all I know is that I love watching documentaries on them!
I knew you did. 💓
I like them too.
I don’t know what they are, I don’t believe all the sightings.
Some I do, they are something more than men in ape suits imo.
There was a cool documentary on Netflix a couple of years back - whether you believe or not it was very entertaining! Now I want to watch it again lol.1 -
I like watching Paranormal shows/movies 👻3
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I have an uncle who loved watching WWII movies growing up, learned German for the express purpose of seeing if the German spoken in the movies was actually translated correctly in the subtitles. Answer: yes.3
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The post above got me thinking.
As a kid, for some reason, I always watched the old movies from the late 1930s, 1940s, some 1950s.
I have watched so many WWII movies multiple times.
I am still watching old movies that were old when I was kid.
Many I’ve seen repeatedly over the last 50yrs.
It makes me sad that the majority of young people show no interest.0 -
Metropolis (1927) is my jam 🤘 Those geezers could make a damn filmhoney_honey_12 wrote: »The post above got me thinking.
As a kid, for some reason, I always watched the old movies from the late 1930s, 1940s, some 1950s.
I have watched so many WWII movies multiple times.
I am still watching old movies that were old when I was kid.
Many I’ve seen repeatedly over the last 50yrs.
It makes me sad that the majority of young people show no interest.1 -
If it’s on my plate, it’s mine.
Get your own.3 -
So, here is a little 4th of July Let Me Know You a Little Better experience from my past.
I've always been the go to for parties and other fun things. I like to think it's because I've always had the land but in reality I think some of it has to do with the stupid "here hold my beer and watch this" *kitten* I end up doing before the nights over. It's all good though, I've got awesome friends who have not let me die. Yet.
So, the way the 4th of July used to work was like this. It was an all day affair. Literally, people started showing up at the butt crack of dawn to help start setting up.
The spread of food covered that mornings breakfast all the way through the day to "it's almost sunrise, were sloppy *kitten* drunk, and any nasty concoction sounds gourmet".
Fireworks, we had thousands of $ in them. The rule was whatever everyone spent I'd match. This specific year we had so many we had 3 people lighting them off, sometime in series and sometimes in parallel, and couldn't light off all of them. Mortars, cakes, yada yadda yadda. We didn't have as many daytime fireworks but we had a bunch and were shooting them off and on all day.
We started with roman candles. I told ol' boy NOT to hold them in his hand. They do explode sometimes. Yep, he didn't listen and the *kitten* blew up in his hand. Luckily it was about 1/2 way up the candle and it wasn't' towards him. I told him so. :shrug:
Then we go to mortars. I built a stand to launch them out of with, I think 4 or 5 tubes. I don't trust the tubes that come with them; not stable enough IMHO.
I was the dumb *kitten* this time. I lit a mortar before putting it in the tube, then dropped it in the tube. In my defense the fuse was cut short on this one so if I dropped it in I wouldn't have been able to light it. After dropping it in someone yells "He put it in upside down! Run!". Yep, I did. It exploded in the tube a couple feet from me. Luckily I was using my super duper, highly modified, extra strong launcher tube so the explosion was contained and no one was hurt. In hind sight I should have put it in the tube but held onto the fuse, lit it, then let go.
The last fun incident happened when ol' boy didn't listen to me again. I put a sheet of plywood to launch this stuff off of. Partially because I don't want my grass effed up but also because some smaller cakes are not heavy enough to solidly rest in the grass. This dumb *kitten* didn't put a cake that had multiple 1" shots on the plywood. Guess what happened? First shot sent that *kitten* on it's side, shooting sideways. and each shot caused the cake to turn so you never knew where the next shot was going. Everyone else hauls *kitten* as I go running at the box. I was able to grab it and turn it right side up and hold onto it but I was a little salty.
That was the last year we started drinking so early in the day on the 4th.
Learn from my mistakes, kids.
This year is gonna be epic. The party starts when I pick up the first couple guests from the airport at about 1000 tomorrow morning and don't quit until we're done water skiing Monday evening.6 -
I love to be outdoors again.1
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Unless you’re one of my grandkids,
no you can’t have the last piece of bacon.1 -
eatpolerepeat wrote: »I get frustrated very easily when driving. I like it fast and people get in the way 🤷♀️
😳🤐
Oh wait.. skipped over the driving part.. my bad.
I tend to read too fast and skip important part. 😝
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I still like watching cartoons and I’m excited for Hotel Transylvania 4! 🧛♂️👻🐺🦇 I love going to the movie theatre with the reclining chairs, getting a big bucket of buttered popcorn, M&Ms and a Diet Coke. 🍿🍫🥤3
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What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?2
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Finishiitnow wrote: »What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?
Don’t sweat the small stuff. ☺️
I wasted too much time getting upset over things that didn’t matter.1 -
I Love Fireworks!! 🎇
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Finishiitnow wrote: »What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?
Contrary to popular belief life is NOT black or white, it's gray all the way. So you don't have to be a symbol of perfection, just be enough to like and respect yourself. Believe it when people tell you "Life is short" even if it didn't feel like it when you were a teenager. Don't let all the outside negativity from others mold you into who you think you should be. AND put aside some of your earnings every single week, no matter how little an amount it may be.4 -
Finishiitnow wrote: »What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?
Contrary to popular belief life is NOT black or white, it's gray all the way. So you don't have to be a symbol of perfection, just be enough to like and respect yourself. Believe it when people tell you "Life is short" even if it didn't feel like it when you were a teenager. Don't let all the outside negativity from others mold you into who you think you should be. AND put aside some of your earnings every single week, no matter how little an amount it may be.
@ReeniieHJ i like you and tend to agree with you most times.....but not about your first points here. I believe the more blacj and white you make your life, the happier abd more successful you will be. Most gray areas i believe come from not answering hard questions and not dealing with tough times honestly. There is usually a right and wrong answer to every question.....there is usually a right way and a wrong way to be. Almost every time someone told me about something and said, well thats a gray area, i could see how it really wasnt. It was a tough area, but thats ok.
And i also feel life is short if you look back on it as it not being fulfilling. Ask a person sitting in prison how fast time flies by. Sure my days go by so fast sometimes, but when i sit back and reflect, i feel satisfied and full. I dont wish away time, and i dont long for the past......time moves just fine for me as long as i use it well and dont waste it. You dont get back even a second, so i think wasting time is what makes it fly, because you will end up wishing for it back and get the feeling things have passed you by.
I agree whole heartedly with the rest of what you said 😁2 -
Finishiitnow wrote: »What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?
Contrary to popular belief life is NOT black or white, it's gray all the way. So you don't have to be a symbol of perfection, just be enough to like and respect yourself. Believe it when people tell you "Life is short" even if it didn't feel like it when you were a teenager. Don't let all the outside negativity from others mold you into who you think you should be. AND put aside some of your earnings every single week, no matter how little an amount it may be.
@ReeniieHJ i like you and tend to agree with you most times.....but not about your first points here. I believe the more blacj and white you make your life, the happier abd more successful you will be. Most gray areas i believe come from not answering hard questions and not dealing with tough times honestly. There is usually a right and wrong answer to every question.....there is usually a right way and a wrong way to be. Almost every time someone told me about something and said, well thats a gray area, i could see how it really wasnt. It was a tough area, but thats ok.
And i also feel life is short if you look back on it as it not being fulfilling. Ask a person sitting in prison how fast time flies by. Sure my days go by so fast sometimes, but when i sit back and reflect, i feel satisfied and full. I dont wish away time, and i dont long for the past......time moves just fine for me as long as i use it well and dont waste it. You dont get back even a second, so i think wasting time is what makes it fly, because you will end up wishing for it back and get the feeling things have passed you by.
I agree whole heartedly with the rest of what you said 😁
@Revolu7 I like that you voiced your opinion. Having the personality traits that I do of seeing both sides(thank you Libra ;/) I actually can see your POV on both comments I made. I think one's perspective comes from all the things that make that person an individual, experiences of past and present, environment, genetics, upbringing, just everything. Plus it also depends on which topics we're talking about when it comes to black and white and life's too short.
I mean black and white definitely does exist in some circumstances but I guess when I posted that, I was thinking back to any conversation I've ever tried to have with my brother about climate change, religion(egads), politics, gender choice/civil union/etc.(really bad)...IOW it's his way or no way. And I could see a little of that during my childhood with my parents. My policy is 95% Live and Let Live as long as you do no harm to people/animals/property of others.
I truly wish some of us MFP'ers could sit down around a table and just talk, share, discuss and listen; ya know....good old fashioned conversation without a keyboard.
And as far as your comments about Life is too short, I agree with what you said but OTOH, disagree. D@@mn the Libra thing. Just ask my sister who lived a full life with her dh of 54 years while he was withering away to nothing from Alzheimer's. 
And I don't mean to sound snarky saying that but what she wouldn't have given to keep having extra days by his side. I remember talking with my mom's dr. while we were in the hospital waiting for her to pass away; he said his mom lived to be 100 and it still wasn't long enough. So again, I feel it's about perspective and the individual.
Regrets, life not being fulfilling, etc., I cannot imagine there are many of us who don't experience at least a little bit of this looking back. Things we wished we'd done differently or things left unsaid.
So, pull up a chair, share your thoughts. Better grab a coffee or a drink, we might be here awhile. 2 -
Finishiitnow wrote: »What would be the advice that you would give to your younger self?
Contrary to popular belief life is NOT black or white, it's gray all the way. So you don't have to be a symbol of perfection, just be enough to like and respect yourself. Believe it when people tell you "Life is short" even if it didn't feel like it when you were a teenager. Don't let all the outside negativity from others mold you into who you think you should be. AND put aside some of your earnings every single week, no matter how little an amount it may be.
@ReeniieHJ i like you and tend to agree with you most times.....but not about your first points here. I believe the more blacj and white you make your life, the happier abd more successful you will be. Most gray areas i believe come from not answering hard questions and not dealing with tough times honestly. There is usually a right and wrong answer to every question.....there is usually a right way and a wrong way to be. Almost every time someone told me about something and said, well thats a gray area, i could see how it really wasnt. It was a tough area, but thats ok.
And i also feel life is short if you look back on it as it not being fulfilling. Ask a person sitting in prison how fast time flies by. Sure my days go by so fast sometimes, but when i sit back and reflect, i feel satisfied and full. I dont wish away time, and i dont long for the past......time moves just fine for me as long as i use it well and dont waste it. You dont get back even a second, so i think wasting time is what makes it fly, because you will end up wishing for it back and get the feeling things have passed you by.
I agree whole heartedly with the rest of what you said 😁
@Revolu7 I like that you voiced your opinion. Having the personality traits that I do of seeing both sides(thank you Libra ;/) I actually can see your POV on both comments I made. I think one's perspective comes from all the things that make that person an individual, experiences of past and present, environment, genetics, upbringing, just everything. Plus it also depends on which topics we're talking about when it comes to black and white and life's too short.
I mean black and white definitely does exist in some circumstances but I guess when I posted that, I was thinking back to any conversation I've ever tried to have with my brother about climate change, religion(egads), politics, gender choice/civil union/etc.(really bad)...IOW it's his way or no way. And I could see a little of that during my childhood with my parents. My policy is 95% Live and Let Live as long as you do no harm to people/animals/property of others.
I truly wish some of us MFP'ers could sit down around a table and just talk, share, discuss and listen; ya know....good old fashioned conversation without a keyboard.
And as far as your comments about Life is too short, I agree with what you said but OTOH, disagree. D@@mn the Libra thing. Just ask my sister who lived a full life with her dh of 54 years while he was withering away to nothing from Alzheimer's. And I don't mean to sound snarky saying that but what she wouldn't have given to keep having extra days by his side. I remember talking with my mom's dr. while we were in the hospital waiting for her to pass away; he said his mom lived to be 100 and it still wasn't long enough. So again, I feel it's about perspective and the individual.
Regrets, life not being fulfilling, etc., I cannot imagine there are many of us who don't experience at least a little bit of this looking back. Things we wished we'd done differently or things left unsaid.
So, pull up a chair, share your thoughts. Better grab a coffee or a drink, we might be here awhile.
Sure, one could argue back and forth on politics, religion, etc......but the black and white of it is, everyone has their own opinion and are entitled to it. Even if your brother is close minded and does not agree, ignorance of it doesnt change it. How i feel about those things may differ from yours, or your brother's, or many others, and everyone's black and white may not mesh, but thats ok, it doesnt have to. Black and white doesnt necessarily mean one way is right and one way is wrong for everybody, it means, individuals should find their own definitive ideals and paths. The more inconsistency and being unable to commit to one has in their life, the more gray area they have, the less likely they will be to accomplish what they want. And to be fair, whats black and white to me now may not be what black and white to me as a child, or as a younger man. As i evolve so has my ideals, but what never changes is my commitment to them.
As to the other point, of course losing a loved one will bring on feelings of wishing there was more time. But i offer my own example of a good friend of mine that lost his son to cancer when he was just 4 yrs old. That is way to short of a time for anyone to be on earth, especially if it your own child. But when my friend starts to think of it that way, he immediately switches to thinking about every moment he did have with his son and not on the moments he didnt have. Its been over 20 yrs since his boy has passed, and i have never once heard him say what is son could have become.....he talks about what he was. And to me, i like that way of thinking. Especially when talking about loved ones passing. Like i said before, if life is sucking i promise you it doesnt feel short, just ask the person in prison serving time. But if life is good, it will pass at the same speed only seeming quicker......and that is just fine with me. I have no want to live forever, but what i do want is to fill up whatever time i do have on this earth with things that make it pass by as if not in prison.6
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