Tantz_Aerine wrote: Today I got inspired to try and re-enter the forums and be participant like I once was, then my eyes started hurting form the squinting. I'm getting old, everything looks tiny and unreadable to me, even with glasses :(
You need bifocals, they'll go nicely with your grey hair (saw the picture). ;)
I might be retrying them myself. They might work better now that I'm not so severely myopic after the cataract surgery last year. Three eye surgeries to include emergency surgery for a partially detached retina.
Tantz_Aerine wrote: Today I got inspired to try and re-enter the forums and be participant like I once was, then my eyes started hurting form the squinting. I'm getting old, everything looks tiny and unreadable to me, even with glasses :(
"ctrl+" is your friend! When you want the forum text bigger, or any online text or pics anywhere, press control and plus. Control and minus reduces the size and control and zero takes it back to normal again.
Was substitute teaching today. One of the students was this little three year old girl and she had a little turtle puppet. I lean in and say, "what's the turtle say?" she says with perfect pronunciation, "it is not your destiny to stop me."
PIT_FACE wrote: Was substitute teaching today. One of the students was this little three year old girl and she had a little turtle puppet. I lean in and say, "what's the turtle say?" she says with perfect pronunciation, "it is not your destiny to stop me."
so.
Would you rather that it was your destiny to stop her?
I have had an interesting last couple of days. Well let me rewind a bit. Last school year, I was talking to the administrative secretary at one of the schools I worked and she said, "Hey, you went to the same high school as my little brother, do you know him?" I asked her his name and after I heard it, I said, "Yes I know him. We went to prom together."
It is amazing how over a decade of time can pass and all the memories of that major high school crush can come back to the forefront of my mind. Sitting next to each other during a 6-week SAT prep course, teammates in an Academic Club (when he was my JV captain), sharing the same set of earbuds on the bus ride home after an away game, chatting on AIM, orchestra concerts, prom night.
That is why it came as a sudden shock when I saw him at one of my workplaces on Sunday. I called out his name, then ducked below the counter and let my hair down. I ran up to him and said, "Do you remember me?" We talked outside for about thirteen minutes–one minute for every year since I last saw him. I gave him a hug and I gave him my business card with "let's get lunch" and my phone number written on the back. It turns out we have been working next door to each other for the past year and we finally crossed paths last week.
@bravo- I have a burning question from 2013. Do you still have an RAF Bomber model that is up for adoption to a good home? If yes, I am very interested.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote: @bravo- I have a burning question from 2013. Do you still have an RAF Bomber model that is up for adoption to a good home? If yes, I am very interested.
Any particular one? I recommend On a stand In flight as it's easier to move around. You want more than one?
I'm a member of some historical focussed groups on Facebook and two things that really SHITS me is that whenever certain 19th century photos are posted people will either say: "OH THAT"S A GAY COUPLE!!!!" or "OH, THAT PERSON THERE IS ACTUALLY DEAD! THAT'S POST MORTEM PHOTOGRAPHY WHERE THEY WERE POSED TO LOOK ALIVE"
RE: the gay couple stuff: Yes, sometimes the people are gay, or they might possibly be gay, but many of the photos are of grown siblings or good friends. Standards for public displays of affection between people of the same sex, especially Slavs and people from the Balkans, were different than today, especially in modern English speaking countries. Straight men held hands, hugged and kissed as a matter of course.
RE: so called "PM" photography. It happened but it was very rare. If someone was dead they were shown to be dead, not given life-like poses, that sort of Weekend At Berny's thing was astonishingly rare. But these idiots imagine that all types of PM photography were common. These dicknozzels play a game of "spot the dead person" on almost EVERY black and white photo they see. More into on PM photography: http://www.skepticink.com/incredulous/2016/06/19/myth-victorian-post-mortem-photography/
I feel your pain. I'm in some pretty specific interest groups and it's astounding how many absolute garbage posts there are.
Please, NO spam, NO memes, NO tropes. Facts and evidence. If a picture of an aircraft carrier has YKTN on the flight deck and a "Y" on the funnel don't claim it's the Lexington
I dropped out of the Battleship/battlecruiser and Dreadnought groups I was in after the millionth time the same arguments were posted. Not to mention reposting of the same ship photos over and over.
"Bismark VS New Jersey", "Yamato VS New Jersey", "Iowa class had superheavy shells and were the best ships at sea!", "Vanguard was the most modern battleship and the best", "Look at this photo of an Iowa shell through Yamato class turret armour, this PROVES the Iowa could have beaten it", "The Iowas were battlecruisers!", "The Alaska class weren't battlecruisers! "Trump will recommission the Iowas!", "Could they bring battleships back?", "Here's my design for a modern battleship, it's gonna have 1m thick Abrams tank armour, 16 inch railgins and laser for anti-aircaft…"
All that and more repeated endlessly by about 30 thousand people, every day.
bravo1102 wrote: It just thinks that no one with your interests could be a native Australian. It goes against all the behavior models!
Actually it's probably right in that, not many Australians think I'm really Australian. Even recent immigrants seem more Aussie than me :) I am quite an odd duck.
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