Well, I wouldn't freak out, but I'd certainly wonder why I was hearing it so long after Christmas.
TNP would probably tug on Superman's cape.
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Well, I wouldn't freak out, but I'd certainly wonder why I was hearing it so long after Christmas.
TNP would probably tug on Superman's cape.
No, nor spit into the wind.
TNP is pretty sick of winter.
Gettin' there, yup.
TNP knows in just what warm place he or she would like to be right now.
Nah, Miami, Vegas, L.A., all would be fine.
TNP has a plan for the next time they'll be in Vegas
Never been there at all, but yeah, I'd want to gamble a little, see the Rat Pack nostalgia show, have some great meals, visit one of the art galleries, watch the fancy synchronized water fountains, etc.
TNP has lost more than $100 gambling in a single day or night.
No, not by the type of gambling you're probably thinking of. Then again, every decision is kind of a gamble, so that depends.
TNP knew at least one person who had crabs.
I had soft shell crabs just a few weeks ago, and they were... oh, you mean... Um. Not that I'm aware of, no.
TNP loves seafood.
Ladi.....never mind. Sure, but I'd probably rather have a burger or a steak than a tuna sandwich.
TNP enjoys going fishing and/or thinks it would be fun to go sharking, as well.
No. I'd rather read beside a lake or on the deck of a boat than fish.
TNP has seen a skunk in the past month.
Nah, can't remember the last time I saw one, even on the road,
TNP has run over a skunk.
No, although I've seen quite a few as road pizza.
TNP could go for some non-road pizza right now.
Had a craving for frozen pizza sometime last week, but didn't feel like it was worth the effort. Ate yesterday, so I think I'll just have a chocolate bar today or a maybe a slice or two of bread. That'd be a "false."
TNP if he or she had to choose a Confirmation name, has a strong opinion on the suitability of either James or Jacques (those who don't know, they are the same names, just in different languages).
Being of more recent English roots (although French if you go back far enough), I prefer James.
TNP personally knows at least three men named Jacques.
Good question. As it turns out, I do not know personally one person named "Jacques," at least not that I remember. FTM, I don't think I know a James or a Jim personally, although I bet I've met a few.
TNP thinks old/middle-age is pretty sweet -- keep what you need and leave the rest.
Yeah, as long as your health holds up, and before all your friends and family start to die off, I'd agree.
TNP is in excellent health at the moment.
Yeah, I'm OK. Since clearly anyone reading this is extremely interested in my workup, I shall oblige. I am concerned that, once I upped my rule which stated "every time you brush and floss do ten pushups" -- thinking that was such a small amount that I should just get in the habit, since I haven't been being doing them for at least a year), to " once you flosh and brush do twnty pushups. I',m slightly out of breath after twenty (and for the first in my life, these are GOOD pushups -- all the way down, all the way up, slow tempo, no flexing the butt or using other muscles to help). My gum health is very good, despite having recesssion, and pockets of 6 or 7 in a few spots, but I'm metciulous about flossing and brushing using a mechanized brush for +2 minutes 2x qd, no blood or anything. Psuhup fail indicates poor cardio health. I don't drink to excess except on rare occasions when I'll have 15-30 drinks on a day.
My mind is relatively right -- I have gradually developed unprecedented (for me) feats of self-control, and I feel confident that some of the damage to my executive functions has been rehabilitated.
My nutrition is, generally, excellent, but, as might be expected given my rather eccentric habit of fasting (more or less eat one day, and fast or eat 400-600 calories the next at most), my movements are irregular at best.
Hygiene is superb.
TNP is PRESENTLY extremely perturbed by having to deal with a computer problem, primarily because he or she should have been more on the ball and had a good plan in place to gut the damned machine and start from self-dsiciplined procedures.
No, not really, although one of our computers at home is going wonky and is probably due to be replaced.
TNP loves Apple products.
Pretty true. Use them a lot, am happy with them, but somehow have never developed any warm and fuzzies towards Apple.
TNP thinks the breakfast sandwich is the best thing the fast food industry ever came up with.
No, as all right-thinking people know, that honor falls to the Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar, when drenched with Arby's Sauce.
TNP hates Arby's generally.
No, they're pretty good, I guess. Hard to screw up meat and bread in a paper sack. Devotees of the Twitter account "Nihilist Arby's" will agree they're hilarious to make fun of.
TNP is going to observe Lent this season (and possibly eat and drink way WAY too much on St. Joseph's Feast day (Mar. 19th) -- I have not consulted a priest, but I think it's allowed.)
No. Not really into Lent.
TNP has a favorite hymn for Easter (mine is "Welcome, Happy Morning").
No, I don't. This last Saturday night I had received my first penance and first communion in over thirty years, and I'm still a little shaky on the singing parts of the RCC mass. I do not in principle object to the tune Lift Him Up, although I'm not sure it's a hymn. I spent a lot of time learning to play it on Hammond organ a few years ago, though, just because I thought it was catchy.
TNP is looking forward to volunteering some time for a local charity -- because he or she thinks it is an obligation of his or her faith, and because he or she wants to contribute to humanity.
Yes, I'll be judging law school moot court most of tomorrow, as it happens.
TNP has seen a moot court or mock trial competition.
Yeah, but it's been a long, long time.
TNP has argued a case in court in the past 30 years.
Well, sure, ETA thirty-five years apparently my arithmetic is not that good. Make that more like....what's forty less fifteen.....twenty-five, pretty sure, is pretty close, and it was a mock trial in high school. The attorney who coached us was a pretty bitching guy, and the extent of my "arguing" was making an objection addressed to the bench, and I got a compliment from a somewhat attractive young lady for that.
TNP thinks one of the greatest virtues in living in a society of laws is that you can say "fuck you" to people's opinions, pretty much, as long as you're right. In theory.
Absolutely. Free speech is part of the bedrock of liberty.
TNP has said "Fuck you" to the face of an elected official.
No, I never have. I don't believe I ever would -- I don't see the percentage in it, and I think "fuck you" is kind of a weak, puny thing to say, anyway, although I have quite an assortment of extremely rude, but politely-phrased, crude, disparaging things I hope I may never get the chance to say to civilian peace officers, aka cops. ETA I think your view of speech and political theory is more sophisticated than mine -- the important point as I see is "as long as you're right," for me, is the keystone that holds together civil order. IOW the moral right to disparage others up to, perhaps, the line of fighting words or disturbing the peace, is strengthened by one's being right, and the very notion that those who are right and wrong are allowed to speak, is, indeed the very foundation, but I wasn't thinking that far into first principles, because I'm just a simple man.
TNP wears a tie to church, if applicable.
Yes, almost always.
TNP will be skipping church today.
No, I just got back from Saturday evening mass not too long ago -- technically it was a Sunday mass, since it was after dark. Not going again, since we were informed that there are no "drive-by" ash-Wednesday-ings on Ash Wednesday, that it's also a full mass, which I'll also be attending. At some ungodly hour. Maybe I can lurk on the street corners for the rest of Wednesday and try to get me some Faithful Trim. Pretty sure I would think that's not good, but it amuses me.
TNP has had two soft drinks lately, and is ready to agree with me that they are awful beverages, in every way imaginable.
No to both. The only three I care for are ginger ale, orange pop and root beer, and I sometimes go months without having any. But I like 'em when I have 'em.
TNP likes at least three ice cubes in any cold drink.
Depends. I like one big ice cube in straight vodka, maybe two. Maybe more for ice tea or coffee, but I don't usually bother making those.
TNP is going to get drunk and wear a costume and run around the streets according to European tradition for Fat Tuesday.
Nope, that ain't how I roll.
TNP will wear purple in the next week.
Hadn't planned on it -- in fact, that's extremely unlikely, given the amount of digging through my closet I'd have to do to find something purple.
TNP would have a good reason for searching out purple to wear.
Mardi Gras!
TNP has been to Nawlins, er, New Orleans since Katrina hit.
No, but am planning to be there at Christmas.
TNP has drunk a Sazerac.
I don't think so, no.
TNP has read a Patrick O'Brian novel.
Read a lot of them. Big fan.
TNP would like to take a cruise on a tall ship.
Yes! I've been aboard several, including the USCGC Eagle, the USS Constitution, USS Niagara and the Amistad, but never while underway.
TNP would not want to command a tall ship.
Christ, no. Just keeping track of the ropes is beyond me.
TNP has had just about enough winter.
Roger that.
TNP occasionally uses aviator jargon.
No. I spell out everything when needed (eg on telephone or in person to a cop) with the NATO phonetic alphabet (including when joking, "niner" and "fife") -- I don't think that's peculiar to aviation, any more than using the 24-hour clock. That's just being a frustrated ham radio operator. I rarely use visual metaphors in speaking, otherwise I would be all about using terms like "wingover" or "barrel roll" and stuff. ETA I'll amend that to "yes, occasionally I do," because it is only occasionally. Also the directions like "[bogey/whatever] at eleven o'clock" -- I use that constantly when speaking IRL but I assume everybody does. Hell I got in the habit when going on walks with a blind old guy who didn't even know what the fuck a plane is. But sneak-brag, I did build a replica of one of the early space shuttle cockpits for like a second or third grade county science fair, and even though it involved no science and no understanding, I still got some kind of prize, like last or bronze or something.
TNP likes using baseball announcer slang.
Other than sometimes calling small groups of people "sportsfans," no, not really.
TNP will probably go to a Major League baseball game in the next 60 days.
I saw a rabbit first.
TNP first sees a young woman turning her head away, or an old woman looking ahead?: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%28Hill%29.png
I've always seen the lady in that one first. As I did when I double-checked to make sure the link was to the same "thing" I was thinking of.
TNP has zero problem breaking any sort of "rule" he or she well pleases that don't apply to him or her -- not laws, not ordinances, but just rules somebody came up with, like putting cautionary yellow tape around a supposedly less-than-safe area or some douche putting up a "no smoking" or "no jews" sign or whatever people do.
Which lady?
Depends on which "rule." I will happily smuggle candy into a movie theater, since the only purpose of the rule is to get me to pay their extortionate prices, but I wouldn't smoke where a sign showed it was prohibited. Second-hand smoke is a health issue.
TNP loves Skittles and hates cigarettes.
Nah, hate Skittles, and if smoking weren't dangerous, I'd have one in my mouth all the time.
TNP misses people smoking pipes.
Kind of, either of the Sherlock Holmes or the Fifties Father Knows Best kinds.
TNP wouldn't mind living in the Fifties.
It would be great to be a US veteran of the armed forces, to be white, and have survived with no injuries, but in time to be finished college or advanced studies just in time to be called a "square" by Mamie van Doren and find all the white bitches are married. In other words, sort of like a successful version of Max Cady from *Cape Fear*. I don't think so. The 1920s would be a better post-war decade to be in "prime condition" in the US. Lots of laughs, put on a clean fit and fiddle and come back to your flop with a tomato or maybe two and a flat fifth of panther piss.
TNP has ever realized he or she got dressed by accident one day pretty similar to a character from a movie/whatever.
No, I don't think I've ever done that.
TNP has a favorite Hollywood style icon whom he or she tends to emulate.
Huh, love Bogey's style, but wouldn't dream of trying to emulate it. So, no.
TNP is sick both of the problems caused by daylight savings time and of hearing people complain about them.
Nah, I'm good.
TNP resents having to wake up again while it's still dark.
Yeah. It's not the biggest problem I have, but every year I finally get to get up in the light, then it's yanked from me.
TNP likes scones.
Yes, but real ones, not crappy American style scones, I want traditional Scottish scones.
TNP knows and loves cannoli.
Yes, there are some good ones available at a family bakery in Little Italy, not far from here.
TNP tends to leave the gun and take the cannoli.
In honor of St. Joseph coming up, I'll humbly take the cannoli, but only if Connie doesn't feed it to me.
TNP often comes out of the bathroom with the fly unzipped.
Ha! You know, I've been finding myself doing that more and more. Never used to do it.
TNP too often has to go back to make sure he or she has locked the car.
No, when I leave a place, unless I'm drunk, it stays left secured. Double- and triple-checking is a habit for things I consider important, like not losing an umbrella or deciding if a sentence from *Paradise Regained* makes sense and I'm illiterate or if Milton went all crazy for a second.
TNP thinks Gerald Finneran is pretty awesome, and is outraged by the penalties he was assessed.
That's pretty awesome, but nah, he got what he deserved (see the end here): http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoi...ht-335352.html
TNP always behaves impeccably on flights.
Yes.
TNP would rather walk than fly with United Airlines.
I have no particular objection to United. Every airline has done something crappy to someone somewhere.
TNP would have voted against Brexit, given the chance.
No, because I'm not British and I enjoy spectacles of destruction. I would say that's the "inner child" talking, but that wouldn't be exactly accurate. More like "outer homo horribilis"
TNP would rather read in Chateaubriand than eat a chateaubriand cut of steak, under normal circumstances.
Never read any of his stuff, but I'm hungry, so I'll take Option #2.
TNP kept a journal or diary when younger.
I don't think so, but I did so a lot of stupid stuff when I was a teenager.
TNP finds reading old diaries to be interesting, while still not exactly understanding why Pepys, say, kept a record of his fights at the office and how constipated he was.
Yes, now and then.
TNP was a disco fiend back in the day.
Haha god no. Nothing against disco junkies, but it's not my scene at all.
TNP used to wear bellbottoms unironically.
Yeah, but I was like, 12.
TNP has trouble distinguishing between ironic and unironic like.
Oh, yeah. Sometimes the lines can get a bit blurred.
TNP has a pretty good singing voice.
Horrible. Maybe not the worst -- in theory I know what notes are correct, and I even doing an OK job (according to me, the unreliable witness) sight-singing a hymn in church (well, I can at least count out the rests so know when to not sing). No, my voice sounds like a braying donkey, and even my sight-singing is only approximately correct. Really I'm just far too lazy to put in the effort -- it's like doing exercises at the gym, i just don't want to. There's nothing wrong with my voice, if I stay in my range, I just don't want to put in the effort, basically because I hate to sing. It's just not my instrument -- the link between what I hear in my inner ear and what comes out through the voice is not very strong. It'd be like me trying to play the hammered dulcimer or a violin -- just not happening without some serious practice in the woodshed.
TNP thinks good singing is, however, a discipline that can be learned by pretty much anyone, barring some kind of physical or mental disability, even though it might come easier to some than others.
For certain values of "good," that's probably true. But most people would not be willing to put in the effort.
TNP has a never-miss-it favorite TV show.
Sure, I suppose. When it's on, *Rick and Morty* or *Robot Chicken*. I'm not dedicated to my favorite shows.
TNP can spot the rock and roll reference in my above statement.
Nope.
TNP is waiting for rock and roll to reinvent itself again and move away from the nu-metal nonsense and become interesting again.
No, not really, not unless "waiting" is like....waiting for the return of the messiah or spaceships or something. I think that particular comet has sailed a long time ago -- kids don't like it, adults don't care. BTW, that's Black Flag, man, "TV Party."
TNP is aware that people who haven't heard yet Beethoven's Missa solemnis are missing something really super.
Yeah, I guess I'd say that.
TNP has read the Conan Doyle story "Silver Blaze."
Could well be as a kid, but I don't really recall.
TNP thinks Washington helping defeat England and its allies makes up for his having made his bones killing French and Indians earlier in his career.
His record was mixed both in the Revolution and the French and Indian War, but was far more good than bad, I'd say.
TNP loves to read Swedish history.
No, can't say that I've gotten much into it.
TNP does think it's interesting that the Swedish Royal Family is descended from a French general and Napoleon's old girl friend.
Indeed it is! Lots of interesting stuff in European royal history.
TNP is glad to live in a republic, not a monarchy.
Personally, I do live in a monarchy, so no.
TNP approves of McDonald's having an all day breakfast.
Why not? Seems to be something people have wanted for awhile.
TNP would rather live in Paris, France.
Mmm....probably not. I couldn't pick up good enough French at my age.
TNP would rather live in London, England.
Than Paris? No. Than where I live now? Tough call, but... probably not, at this point in my life. I did have a semester abroad there, though, and really liked it.
TNP has lived in London for more than two weeks.
No, I never thought it worthwhile to take the chunnel -- for me, there are or were better things on the continent. Probably even today I don't have much if any interest in visiting London. Maybe Cornwall, or do a Wordsworth tour of the hill country, or see Battersea. That's about it. They don't speak my language.
TNP suspects that there are suspicious reasons why, to his or her knowledge, the long nineteenth century of the history of France is not, as I suspect, taught very much to US high-school students.
No, not in the least. We can barely teach our own country's history well or comprehensively to our kids, let alone teaching that of another country.
TNP has a favorite French king.
Have a strange weak spot for Louis XIII, not sure why.
TNP likes Project Gutenberg.
Very much so. The Internet at its best.
TNP spends about an hour a day on email.
God no. It's pretty rare that I remember to check my e-mail, yet I usually manage to just barely get important messages like about student loans and banking and crap just in the nick of time. Personal messages either go to my phone via text or via Facebook, so I don't worry so much about those. That's why I'm pretty scrupulous about marking important dates on my paper calendar, so I don't miss critical things by mistake.
TNP thinks hot red pepper, garlic, grains, beans, and vitamin pills are all the vegetable matter one really needs. All those belong in the rudimentary paste with which I sustain myself.
Uh... well, if it works for you, great. But I prefer to eat some other actual vegetables, too (green beans, lima beans, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, and spinach, among others).
TNP has eaten vegetable stew in the past month.
No. I can't actually remember the last time I had what normal people would call a vegetable. I do like their stew, though. And lima beans and spinach and carrots and all cruciforms are delicious. Too much effort, and canned lima beans are IMHO not as good as canned black/pinto/chickpeas. However, since Lenten period is over, I'm going to probably make myself sick by eating a giant, probably under-cooked pound of hamburger. Don't know why, but it seems kind of like the thing to do. I don't actually like cooking meat, since it sprays aerosolized fat all over my kitchen and makes it harder to clean up, but I feel like an American today. I've made a huge mistake. So much for my trusty paper calendar. I thought Lent ended on Holy Week/Palm Sunday vigil. Fuck it, I'm still making a burger when I get home. Hell, it's not Friday. And the last two weeks of drinking about two hundred units of alcohol has made me bloated, so it doesn't really matter.
TNP has said either "I'll be with you in a minute" (or a variation) to a stranger who interrupted him or her in a public place.
No, not to any stranger that I can recall.
TNP hates being tickled.
I used to get tickled a lot when I was a little kid -- it was kind of the fun thing in my family when I was at an age I barely remember and got all kinds of nicknames that endure to this day among family. Since then? I don't know if anyone has ever tried -- I don't care for people touching the bottom of my feet, but since the age of reason I've just told them to knock it off. ETA that answer, I suppose, is FALSE, because apparently I enjoyed it as a kid so much that friends of the family I haven't seen in decades still bring up undignified nicknames for me at any chance they get -- guess I outgrew it PDQ. All in good fun among those concerned, including me.
TNP strongly suspects his or her wishes for after-death corpse disposal will not be respected.
going back to my original TNP, but modified not to garner responses that won't be wanted: TNP has no idea if someone being tickled actually likes it or not. Also, my revised TNP was kind of gruesome, especially on today, which is why the strikethrough, since it can be in play if desired, but I only have like one thought every hour or two, so that's it.
TNP thinks its possible to be a practicing Catholic while refusing to receive communion weekly and on days of obligation because he or she thinks he or she would be a hypocrite by the letter of canon.
TNP saw family today and had a few good, genuine laughs.
Yes, my wife and two of my three sons (the eldest is still away at university). A highlight of the day was playing bocce in our backyard together. Lots of laughs and good cheer.
TNP has played bocce and enjoyed it.
No, but I've spent many hours enjoying that other people in the nearby area seemed to be enjoying themselves. I'm pretty sure some of those folks can and perhaps do play all day, from what I can see. Regular Babe Ruths of bocce.
TNP has deliberately decided at some point in his or her life to dress entirely in black for a day, for reasons other than a funeral, or a job, or to be "fashionable."
Hmm. No, I don't think I ever have. Even for funerals I'll wear a white or blue shirt and a dark (but not black) tie.
TNP owns more than 20 neckties or scarves.
Heh. You know, even if I were at my place right now, I don't know if I could be convinced to actually count by hand. OK, from memory, three scarves, two neckties I actually like, two I don't care for, one that is nice but IMO a bit too loud (despite the dominant navy blue color from a distance), one cravat, and about a handful of novelty ties......what is that....so, negative, I'd say about fifteen, but I only wear the two most conservative neckties in public (meh, don't spill canned chili on them, it doesn't matter if some rube thinks you have no imagination), the least ratty scarf in public when weather, and I might have some odd reason to wear the cravat again. Goddammit, that reminds me I used to have a plain black silk tie but I think that got lost in a move years ago, and a tie-band, and one of my gold-plated cufflinks is missing and I think it's gone forever.
TNP thinks button-down collars are kind of a weird little idea, when you think about it, but is resigned to their presence, depending on what's closest to reach on the shirt rack or where in the laundry cycle one is. Because as all humans know, there are exactly two kinds of shirts: the kind whose buttons are all present and has no visible stains and is of an appropriate color, and the other kind. the non-wool (very important) cycle of who-gives-a-fuck laundering, which, for those who don't know, is (i) vigilantly watch for a moment when the laundry room is free across the street (ii) hastily gather about two loads in a hamper (iii) cram into washers on hot, extracleanse option selected (iv) wait (v) yank all the shirts and pants out, put them on appropriate hangers (vi) cram everything into dryers (vii) wait (viii) hang up undershirts (ix) put the hamper with handkerchiefs, shorts, socks, towels somewhere and either fold them or not
Whoops, couldn't quite shut myself up. Of course it should remain in strikethrough -- it is ape law.
So:
TNP can think of a third and final rule to the present canon law of men's clothing, which states (i) must be correct (ii) must be free of pests and visible stains, odors, or tatters.
First and foremost: never wear socks with sandals.
TNP has worn socks with sandals.
Black gold-toed socks. Because I don't care, and I don't like sandals anyway. And I think it's within the limits of correct dress, even if marginally.
TNP can think of a reason, besides increasing the total amount due, a company who bought a small debt from a CC company, would initiate a civil proceeding against someone whom they're sure will fail to appear as well as fail to satisfy the debt, ever. Just curious -- only so many hours in the day, but I occasionally like to know the reasons behind certain contemporary phenomena. I doubt I'll ever understand Anglican points of theology, so this will have to do for the moment. Mainly I just finished all over the face and tits of a difficult Cisco certification, so I am free to consider other things of mild curiosity.
Meh, I can only think that possibly adding to plaintiff attorney fees is another motivation of such a plaintiff, in addition to restoring the post-purchase of the debt to its original amount.
Well, there are some problems with idly posing a question of practice in law and expecting an informed opinion, especially on the internet, that there are not, for example, in posing questions of theology. For some reason I can't help but get this scenario out of my head, but TNP thinks that some party in a civil case could do worse than to say, "Your honor, the defendant chooses as his or her own counsel to represent himself or herself, and if it is appropriate to the court, to make a brief statement, if it is appropriate. [...] The defense does not contest the claims of the plaintiff, and appears before the court from respect. If it may please the court, the defense wishes to stand mute, and defers to the judgment of the court."
Meh, not my area of knowledge, and I suppose like all citizens given enough time to idly think about various matters, it's of moderate interest to the homme moyen raisonnable. Just curious. Thanks to -- one of a few good things inherited from the English and some of the other countries among their islands, namely common-law -- some questions are not purely sensible in the abstract. I won't go so far as to say the man on the street respects jurisprudence as much as, say, some idea of constitutional law, but certainly if one is inclined to read letters to the editor and so forth....well, I wouldn't be able to speculate.
Anyway, the take-away is that my question is not purely abstract, since that is not a property of common-law tradition, but it's somewhat interesting, in my view -- not as a "guide to life or ein Lebenspraxis," but I'd certainly claim more interest in such ideas than theology, for example.
And, to divert, yeah, socks with sandals are pretty stupid. I only see one use of sandals, provided one has access to shoes, namely to protect the soles of the feet from getting burned by hot sand or cut by sharp rocks.
Meh, to each his or own -- if you can cite some sandals you can walk thirty miles in without getting blisters....well, its news to me. Ventilation, I can understand -- but for that, I'd just go barefoot or stop every ten miles or so.
À chacun son goût!.
Oh here's my non-shut-ability. There's probably something about that in the US gov'ts publication *112 Gripes About the French*. No. If you have shoes, you would not be wearing sandals.
Unless you enjoy ceullalar mutation by solar contimaminents or have an inability to regulate the temperate of your foot.
A sandal or a chunk cut out of a discarded radial vulcanized piece of rubber tire plus some hank of rope is good, and I'd be glad for such a material if it were available and others were not.
Bah, I can't go make a general principle about why I wear shoes, socks, shirt, pants, and shorts, and when needed extraordinary tools like sun or cold-weather, cold weather gloves, scarf.
To my opinion, it is more or less settles for some thousands of years that humans figured all that out. Hell even our beloved monkey and ape friends aren't that stupid to ignore a nice moment in the shade, when the elements indicate.
Nope, you got me there.Quote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
TNP has been on a college campus in the past three months.
Yeah, as in a few days ago. Don't ask me how the figure out how to rent agreement for the spaces, because i don't know, but yeah. ETA, I'm not sure what I was talking about. Really, I'm not sure. Hmm...well, it's a good thing we're not litigating for damages, apparently, b/c I have no clue what I'm talking about!
TNP is very happy, in general, to ignore things that don't create an impact on him or her -- speaking politically, morally, civilly, and so forth. While at the same time he or she is not prepared to have an opinion about if it shoould be moral correct, nonetheless, he or she is more or less happy about his or her decision pertinent to the preceding sentence.
Oh, since there are only rules of civility here, I just looked earlier post, and noticed ""party in a civil case could do worse than to say, "Your honor, the defendant chooses as his or her own counsel to represent himself or herself, and if it is appropriate to the court, to make a brief statement, if it is appropriate. [...] The defense does not contest the claims of the plaintiff, and appears before the court from respect. If it may please the court, the defense wishes to stand mute, and defers to the judgment of the court.""
Meh, TNP thinks that seems like a pretty correct course of action.
Then again, I think wearing jockey shorts in a hot springs is inferior to going "GermanEnglish nudist," I suppose, and apparently some maniacs have differing ideas about political dissent the world over, and particular in urban France -- I wouldn't know.
I suggest you just do one TNP at a time, Jizz. I'll take the first one you posted. Yes, I am generally happy to ignore things that don't have a direct impact on me... but I also have opinions about, and sometimes donate time or money to change or improve, other things even if they don't directly affect me.
TNP has read something by Rudyard Kipling in the past week.
No, not that recently.
TNP is fond of Zane Grey.
No, never read anything by him - I remember he was one of Ike's favorite authors, though.
TNP has been to Zanesville, Ohio.
No, never heard of it. Sounds like buggywhip country to me, but I could be wrong.
TNP likes Ike.
Mostly. He picked Nixon as VP, should've done more on civil rights and focused U.S. military policy too much on nuclear weapons, but he did preside over peace and prosperity.
TNP suspects the most explosive Nixon White House tapes still have not been heard publicly.
I do not suspect that actively, but it would be surprising if it were not true.
TNP doesn't really give a shit about what some turd politician says or thinks, but only in what is correct.
Turd politicians? No. Elected officials whom I like and agree with? Yes.
TNP votes in virtually every election he or she is entitled to.
Yes.
TNP favors the Black Panther group, despite the iniquities of some of their rank years ago, to another, softer group, which he or she will name, if applicable.
It'd have to be a lot softer for me to favor it. Perhaps I'd rename it... the Reformed Black Panther Nonviolent Social Club, Clam Chowder and Marching Society.
TNP hates clam chowder (New England or Manhattan).
No, I enjoy a good old fashioned clam chowder. Good old fashioned New England style -- heavy on the clams and potatoes, no tomato. In fact, that could be part of a rudimentary paste -- put the lot of it in a bucket and it's got all the food groups.
TNP has not seen a Monty Python sketch or movie in at least a few years.
No, I probably see some Monty Python bit or another at least every other week or so. I'm a big fan.
TNP has an all-time favorite MPFC sketch.
I guess, sure. Probably been fifteen years since I've seen it, but I like the little "wafer vignette" from *The Meaning of Life*, and refer to it often in private life.
TNP really fucking despises Emmanuel Macron, and not just because he has a ridiculous name, but is still glad that little theater spectacle is over, and that the French did not go completely idiotic for one day. Idiots.
No, I don't despise him. From what little I know of him, I actually think he has the potential to be a good leader of France. And he was definitely better than the alternative in the second round of voting.
TNP thinks the name "Macron" sounds like some kind of comic book supervillain. Or maybe a synthetic fabric.
Nah, more like a cookie.
TNP likes macarons.
Yes, although I prefer macaroons.
TNP hopes to visit France this year.
Probably not -- a little too hot politically for me to be at ease making the rounds at the neighborhood cafés with my American accent (it's not terrible, but it's still noticeable, especially since I don't speak French for a long time in conversation), not that it was especially fun after 9/11, and the one friend I'm regularly in touch with personally is a little....she's better for me to correspond with frequently in writing, sometimes daily, than have a real desire to see in person again. And, I don't know how the euro currency works, but I suspect to get soaked on things that used to be dirt cheap in Paris, like low-end hotels in the non-tourist areas, and maybe even comestibles and potables. And I think I still owe one of the French banks a bit of money, so they might not even let me in. And it's a PITA to fly there from the west coast of the United States for anything but a longer trip, IMHO. And I cant think of anything or anyplace special I'd like to see or do. Maybe if there was some important conference that someone mistakenly invited me to, I'd go and have fun.
TNP is pleased to have got a haircut a little bit ago by a nice young lady.
No, but I'll be getting one on Sat. from a nice older lady!
TNP knows someone who, like the late Calif. Gov. Pete Wilson, shaves at least three times a day.
No, that seems a little extreme.
TNP knows someone who should shave at least three times a day.
Yes, my friend George has a very heavy beard. Looks good on him, though.
TNP personally knows at least three Georges.
Yes, I have personally known three people named George in my life. Not more than that, but three, I'm sure. I may have met some guys named Georges, however, but I am both good with and also very forgetful of names at the same time. That is an ambiguous TNP. For shame. For bloody shame.
TNP can describe his or her politico-economic views in a snappy catchphrase, like "social conservative, fiscal liberal," and will do so in the next post.
Center-left Democrat and implacable foe of Donald Trump.
TNP suspects Donald Trump will be out of office, one way or the other, by the end of this year.
No, not in the least. This is the highway to hell, and there isn't anybody who knows anything about anything, much less how to manage the mass psychology of Americans.
TNP would not hesitate to point to Bob Gibson or Mike Tyson as role models in sports to children -- because the correct spirit in the ring or at the mound is to kill at all costs the opponent, by blind, savage destruction and concentrated fury powered by impeccable technique. (That's also the reason children shouldn't play sports -- the attitude required is for adults only).
No. That's not my attitude towards sports.
TNP wouldn't mind having a beer or three with Mike Tyson sometime.
.................thinking...............Yes, I would very much enjoying drinking with Iron Mike. I don't know if he drinks (somewhat doubt it) and I might be somewhat cautious of a drunken Mike Tyson, but I would hang on his every word, hoping for more chestnuts like "everybody's a tough guy until they get hit in the face" (or similar), and trying to come up with my own lines of bullshit about life and women and stuff. That's what I would call a good time. Hell, I would INSIST that he drink too, because I'd really like to do some light-hearted sparring, just for fun, and get some pointers -- see Mike get stupid, hang loose. Although I'm not sure he'd be able to pull his punches, literally (metaphorically).
TNP thinks it would be pretty funny to secretly change various alarms of non-grass-smoking people to 04:20.
Not sure. Does that time have some particular significance?
TNP usually forgets to reset clocks for Daylight Savings Time.
No, I usually don't know it is DST in the first place, unless it's marked on the calendar, what with finding radio and television to be by and for cornholers and feebs. If I know about it, I have never failed to set clocks correctly, because why wouldn't you? Just get up and change the damned clocks. And do your pushups, brush your teeth, play or sing a scale at 120bpm, and say the Nicene Creed. And then do the remaining clocks you forgot about. And yes, supposedly 4:20 was something like a police code for zomg kids be smoking reefer, so it's like a slang or something. You'd be surprised at the stupid little bits of "urban/country hippy" lore that gets handed down by tradition, just because, I don't know, kids are bored and guillible. Yeah, well, I still personally believe that George Clinton might well have told Eddie Hazel to "play like your momma just died" before the solo on "Maggotbrain." There are a ton of them, for some reason, drug lore and music lore have a large intersection.
TNP did not know that you can put regular old black tea (or other kinds, I guess) in a pipe and smoke it, and it apparently doesn't kill you right away (although the very fine powder in the tea bags is a pain to light and clogs the pipe).
No, I didn't know that. How did it taste/smell?
TNP knows at least five pipe-smokers.
No. :( I knew two people in school who were pipe weens, with the whole "rotate pipes, use a pipe stand," and so forth but the one I still know smokes cigs, last I saw him -- I don't really know anyone else or haven't known anyone else who smoked a pipe. Supposedly my pops went through a phase in the mid-1970s, but I wouldn't know about that.
And to answer the aside question, it actually tastes pretty much like tea. I tried to get my uncle to tell me how it smelled, when I saw him last week for a few minutes playing checkers in the park, but his vocabulary wasn't very helpful to me -- I really don't know.
TNP is amused to know that in the US, like in Islam countries, public drinking is punishable, but 18-20% yeasts are freely sold, because it says something about the secretive nature of the American polis.
TNP thinks people who think checkers is the stupid version of chess are morons.
Well, yeah. They've very different games with only a superficial similarity to each other.
TNP loves getting a pawn turned into a queen when he or she reaches an opponent's back row.
Yep. That activates the reward centers all right, might even be some dopamine involved. Agreed -- checkers is like a very abstract, numerical game. It's abstract algebra, whereas chess is sort of a very applied, sort of fluffy area of math, like statistics or implementations of graph theory. Make no mistake, I love playing chess, but I've decided that it's never going to be a priority for me to spend any amount of time studying opening theory. I do like the horsies, though, and Capablanca's instruction book is a marvel of humane, beautiful writing.
TNP has recently been utterly dismayed stepping on a scale recently -- oh well, that's what you get for not being disciplined for a month.
"Utterly dismayed" is a bit strong, but when I found out at my check-up a few months ago that I hadn't lost any weight in a year despite making what I thought were efforts, I did a pretty significant change to my diet.
TNP is trying to really reduce their refined carbohydrate intake.
It might not be a bad idea if I did, but no, I can't say I'm really trying to do it.
TNP likes what he or she has seen of French President Macron so far.
SIMULPOST
Funny that should have come up. Actually, no, the opposite: I've decided to start dumping champagne yeast and sugar into gallon-sized fruit juice containers and making gallons of strong wine at home. That seems about as refined a carb as there is.
TNP thinks "moist" is one of the choicest words in this miserable language.
OK, I'll play: yeah, Macron seems subdued and reasonable, and he's not a flashy dresser. He really hasn't done much of anything except some gestures to Mother Russia, but I don't follow the news that closely.
TNP heard about the stabbing on a commuter train in Portland, OR (it made the Washington Post headlines Saturday, so apparently it was newsworthy) and would have been inclined to "verbally harrass" the offending idiot using foul, disgusting, offensive, racist, obscene language, in a calm voice, rather than lay hands on him.
Probably, but I like to think I would've physically intervened if violence broke out (as I have twice before in somewhat-similar situations).
TNP is a fan of Jelly Roll Morton.
Are you kidding me? I'd like to find out who ISN'T a fan of Ferd and kick their ass for sport.
TNP saw or heard some Navy or Air Force jets flying somewhere outside today, and thought it was pretty cool.
Not recently, no. But yes, it is cool.
TNP would like to be a fighter pilot.
Errr....I think I might be a little aged-out of that profession. Anyway, it's too much effort, and I don't even like cars (although "I am an excellent driver" and competent DIY shadetree mechanic). Too noisy, too much BS, but the slide rule they use is cool.
TNP knows how to use a slide rule (choose any type scales you want), and thinks they're super handy, if your memory isn't so good.
No, never used one. Never was especially handy with a calculator, either, come to think of it....
TNP knows his or her way around an abacus.
Hah, no, although used to screw around on the one at the Museum when my kid was little.
TNP has taken to thinking a little too much about retirement.
Not too much, but a little, yes.
TNP thinks this is freakin' brilliant: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs...ical-new-album
I'm sorry to have to report that the hippies out in San Francisco do like Merle Haggard said they would. Negative, the pattern is full.
TNP has never noticed that the word "wormhole" is a near-homophone of "warm hole".
Huh. No, I guess I never did.
TNP would prefer to be in a warm hole to a wormhole.
Beavis and Butthead voice "He said warm hole". Anyway, yeah.
TNP is going to see Neil Diamond on his 50th anniversary tour.
No, although I like some of his earlier music. My parents played his Hot August Night album quite a bit when I was a kid.
TNP hates Neil Diamond's music with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns.
No, but then again, the only thing I know of his, aside from some stuff inadvertently heard on elevators, is his number from the movie *The Last Waltz," which when I've been drinking and am wearing cheesy sunglasses, I almost without fail try to imitate.
TNP thinks smartphones are more PITA to use than not, although they have some limited uses.
Definitely, especially for the calendar function: I can look up something on my old-school pocket calendar much faster than my friends can on their fancy-schmancy smartphones.
TNP already has an appointment, other than a doctor's visit or holiday travel plans, scheduled at least six months from now.
Hmmm.....no, I guess not. I think I have a yearly checkup with my PCPhys sometime soon, but one of his staff will give me a ring to see what's a good time, I'm sure. Geez, six months is a long time ahead to plan for something. Shit, that reminds me, I'm getting to be about that age, maybe I should have old man Ha*** give me the rubber glove treatment.....Nah. I know my aerobic ability is shit, I know how much I weigh, my dental hygiene is superb, and I don't have any fungal growths.
If TNP came into a few thousand free money, he or she would replace some tatty-but-respectable clothes in his or her regular wardrobe (blazers, pants, white shirts, leather shoes, and so forth) with some identical-but-new replacements.
Yes, I guess I could do with some new dress shirts and shoes.
TNP regularly bets on the lottery.
I only gamble w human lives, not scratcher
Tnp prefers white shirts to oxford button colllateds
I only gamble w human lives, not scratcher
Tnp prefers white shirts to oxford button colllateds
I do tend to wear white shirts during the workweek, yes.
TNP has seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
Absolutely, more than once. Good movie, i would say
Tnp can think of two reasons to not like daniel craig
Yes, a very good movie. Just saw it for the second time.
Two reasons to not like Daniel Craig? Uh... no. I can't. A talented actor and a good guy, from what little I've heard.
TNP knows off the top of his or her head who Daniel Craig's wife is, and will post a picture.
t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyFK1tVZnA_an7wCiGG8DFXqBDAcqeV kiEt1fuAavtj_VnUsEqTA. She can be in keanu movies b/c hes not a threat but craig threatens my virility
TNP is not ashamed to self-apply the term "macho"
I'm not ashamed, it just doesn't really fit me.
Yes, Craig is married to actress Rachel Weisz (mrowrrrr). Here's a more contemporary picture: http://2xkcvt35vyxycuy7x23e0em1a5g.w...chel-weisz.jpg
TNP knows someone who is TOO macho.
No friends of mine -- imo aggro illiterates with something to prove r bad news up and down
Tnp wishes his or her amygdala were smaller
No friends of mine -- imo aggro illiterates with something to prove r bad news up and down
Tnp wishes his or her amygdala were smaller
Nah, it's gotten me through life pretty well so far.
TNP agrees with me that the spleen is the funniest internal organ.
No. 'spleen' makes me think of euthanizing enemies.
TNP thinks Frankenheimer's Manchurian Candidate is incoherent drivel.
Nah, it's OK. Never saw the Denzel Washington remake, though.
TNP can name three movie remakes which are better than the originals.
Wow. Tough. Since i've entered smartard phone crapville, I should answer. ............. The Man Who Knew Too Much - even w doris day and the brat. I mentioned elsewhere the remake Unfaithful. probably technically better than Chabrol's. And the Knihhtley P&Prej is better than other versions, as is Apocalypse Now, but unsure if they can be counted, so i give two.
TNP has tried a new homemade food recently, like sugar water turned into 8% dry 'wine' in 48 hours. Gator mccluskey would like my milk gallon jug collection scattered around my space heater.
No, but that sounds worth a try (and definitely agreed as to the Knightley Pride & Prejudice).
TNP has read something about the Panama Canal in the past month.
No. I read "the" book by DM about a year ago, and was enlightened.
TNP knows quite a bit about France around the Franco-Prussian war period.
Relatively little, but what little I know doesn't impress me much with Napoleon III. And I'm listening to McCullough's book now!
TNP is a big fan of Napoleon III.
Heh. I never even considered being a NapIII fan a thing. It was a dark time back then, although it cant be blamed to NapIII. So, no.
TNP thinks the French people sort of earned their stereotype as belligerant peasants from their tumultuous nineteenth century
If not earlier or later.
TNP kind of wonders why frozen yogurt is a thing.
If not earlier or later.
TNP kind of wonders why frozen yogurt is a thing.
Going with the more recent question: no, I guess some people think it's healthier than ice cream, and that's probably the main reason for its popularity.
TNP likes frozen yogurt well enough but prefers ice cream.
Huh. A rare question never. considered. I prefer ice cream bc. i like cows. more than goats . I guess
TNP will probably not be drinking much more ethanol from milk jugs in the near future
Since I don't drink any from milk jugs now, I guess I can't say I'll be drinking "much more."
TNP has a movie he or she wants to see this weekend.
Sort of mildly curious about the new Wonder Woman, but also not, and also partly would be enraged at sitting through that.
TNP has a problem reconciling the practices of selfishness and righteousness, as experiences.
Sort of mildly curious about the new Wonder Woman, but also not, and also partly would be enraged at sitting through that.
TNP has a problem reconciling the practices of selfishness and righteousness, as experiences.
I guess so. Sometimes I'm too selfish, and I can certainly be self-righteous in a way that I know I shouldn't be.
TNP has survived a house or apartment fire.
No, sounds messy and expensive. If I had to suicide, though, that's about the best, pulling a Bachman. Not to mention arson is a superior crime to many others.
TNP feels, looks, and is a mouth-breather using a touch screen.
I do have problems with them sometime, yes.
TNP has at least two siblings still alive.
No. I prefer having the one -- easier to manipulate if I should have need to in the future.
TNP has deliberately changed the way his or her brain treats reflex-like treatment of emotion.
Hmm, not really, although I've tried.
TNP doesn't own a set of bathroom scales.
False. Just weighed myself this morning, as it happens.
TNP weighs himself or herself at least monthly.
Usually multiple x daily, but for quite a few months my scale hasnt been working. I buy fresh cr2032 but no motivation to replace since i think the problem is mechanical, and i have two keyboards that need the same kind battery and its a hassle. Lots of things require effort.
TNP enjoys the last movement of Beethoven's Op 27 no 1 more than that of the 'moonlight' op 27 no 2, OR doesnt know OR doesnt care about western art music
I have no preference between the two, but I DO care about Western music (especially classical and Baroque).
TNP is interested to learn a bit about the new Boeing 797: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/20/news...eek/index.html
Hmmm. Yes, I guess I'm slightly interested, but to be honest, commercial passenger air travel kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, what with all the mishegas about TSA and whatever. Very unpleasant business, and I'm trying to think positive a lot lately, that is, when I'm not relishing the unique savor of contempt and ruination.
TNP vastly prefers wine fresh from the box to "wine" that has been moldering in empty milk jugs.
Better: TNP will classify himself or herself (or itself? I don't follow all the new trends) as a (i) Spock (ii) Kirk (iii) Bones. Those are the only choices, so choose wisely.
I'm probably closest to Spock in my calmness and intellect, but have always admired Kirk more for his leadership skills and daring. I'm not grumpy enough to be McCoy.
TNP is most similar to Luke, Han or Leia?
I'll take the outside view of not identifying w the femme or the fixer-upper girlfriend. I dont claim to be as competent as Han, but my ego and confidence is just as bigger. Probably not a thing to brag about when u dont have a grifted van by the river.
Tnp hates things but likes people.
I dunno. I kinda hate some things and some people, but like some things and some people fine.
TNP spends more time reading about movies than watching movies.
No. I spend about zero time reading about movies these days. In fact, I have a hard time thinking of anyone I'd be interested in reading nowadays on the subject.
TNP has received in the past an extremely incoherent, scrawled in apparently crayon, complaint pasted to one's front door. Apparently some special snowflakes don't like Jerry Lee Lewis being played at a very modest volume in the witching hours. Crybabies.
No, can't remember the last note put on my front door (in crayon or otherwise).
TNP has a favorite Crayola crayon color.
Burnt ochre.
TNP has exercised enormous self-control recently, such as not using many hundreds of watts of PA gear to taunt weaklings, or affix crude Jackie Treehorn-esque drawings to natural artifacts.
Yes, there was somebody I wanted to smack after explaining the same thing to him a couple of different ways and he still didn't seem to get it.
Don't see burnt ochre here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._crayon_colors
TNP has another favorite Crayola crayon color.
Uh, OK, flesh, I guess. At least I know ur not talking about me posting quotes in the regular languages, since that was only explained in one way -- or univocally, if you prefer the language of the 13th century.
TNP is pretty short on patience, but is pretty good at just smiling and nodding.
That's fair to say.
TNP will do some gardening this weekend.
No, I did my "gardening" yesterday by removing a moldy cloth pot holder from my potted plant on the porch, where I tossed it after a small kitchen fire many months ago. It isn't so much a "plant" as it is a pot that has some unidentified weeds that are nonetheless somewhat green and attractive (to me).
TNP has basically totally lost their shit recently IRL for a brief period.
No, not in a loooong time.
TNP read outside for at least ten minutes today.
Nah, weather here hasn't been really conducive to that.
TNP wonders why government IT workers don't have the technical skills one would expect of a 9 year old child these days.
Er...canucks? Runs and hides. That is pretty odd, but your basic IT cat isnt exactly an intellectual scientist IME.
TNP hates the Fourth of July, because people.
Er...canucks? Runs and hides. That is pretty odd, but your basic IT cat isnt exactly an intellectual scientist IME.
TNP hates the Fourth of July, because people.
Nope. Independence Day can be a great day, and should be.
TNP has seen the 1962 movie The Music Man in the past year.