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hanyuufan5

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Only two things tie me down from leaving: the sense of responsibility for Elle and the anxiety of quitting something that has become habitual.

For goodness's sake, get out of there! :ghug: Elle will be fine. (knocks wood) You need a job that won't drain you so much. Some people just aren't suited for certain jobs, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. (Personally, I wouldn't work with kids for a million dollars a year...)

Who knows, maybe Min left for some of the same reasons you did, and she'll be there at your next job. :biggrin:
 

hanyuufan5

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I am too enthusiastic about figure skating. And Star Trek.

Today, I wanted to research good socks for the future, as I'll get proper skates soon.

I googled for something way more interesting - iceskating spocks. :scratch3:

That sounds like a good way of accidentally coming across a fanfiction gold mine. :laugh:

Spock was always my favourite character. And I was genuinely upset when Leonard Nimoy died a few years ago. (Wow! Really can't believe it will be 5 years at the end of this month! :shocked: )

Leonard Nimoy played Master Xehanort in the last Kingdom Hearts game that I played in English. I've only played the Japanese versions since. Then Master Xehanort's first Japanese voice actor died. So I got to be sad over the same character's voice actor twice. :cry:
 

Ravyn Rant

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Many years ago there was a TV commercial for Life Alert in which the unfortunate Mrs. Fletcher, a nice elderly woman, calls the emergency service from her floor, crying "I've fallen and I can't get up!" Can't lie to you nice people, I laughed. So did everyone else as Mrs. Fletcher went what we'd call "viral" today.
Nearly a week ago, I fell hard and broke my leg. I'm not even close to elderly (or nice, some days), and suddenly I was Mrs. Fletcher. It was as awful an experience as you'd expect and I'll never laugh at a fictional elder in distress again.
 

Snorlax

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https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/495466396478186443/
Did you by any chance watch the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] of the new films ("Into Darkness") on Film4 tonight?
No, I usually don't watch TV, just Netflix or YT :D But my hubby and me are actually just going through all the shows as I hadn't watched most ST before. We watched TNG + films, Enterprise, Discovery, now we're busy with DS9 and Picard. Looking forward to Voyager as well!

was planning to watch it LIVE (so to speak), but didn't manage to get tea over in time for it starting.
I hope it was Earl Grey? :coffee:
 

el henry

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No, I usually don't watch TV, just Netflix or YT :D But my hubby and me are actually just going through all the shows as I hadn't watched most ST before. We watched TNG + films, Enterprise, Discovery, now we're busy with DS9 and Picard. Looking forward to Voyager as well!


....

If you are a Star Trek buff, I heartily recommend "The Orville". I do not know if it is available overseas, we watch it on Hulu. It is a greater homage to the original ST than any show broadcast today. It was originally marketed as a comedy, but it is not, it is straight up Trek:yes:
 

elbkup

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Many years ago there was a TV commercial for Life Alert in which the unfortunate Mrs. Fletcher, a nice elderly woman, calls the emergency service from her floor, crying "I've fallen and I can't get up!" Can't lie to you nice people, I laughed. So did everyone else as Mrs. Fletcher went what we'd call "viral" today.
Nearly a week ago, I fell hard and broke my leg. I'm not even close to elderly (or nice, some days), and suddenly I was Mrs. Fletcher. It was as awful an experience as you'd expect and I'll never laugh at a fictional elder in distress again.

Good Lord!!! Hope you are OK now.. How awful... and that commercial seems to be taken more seriously in general nowadays since those of us who first saw it are older..:sad46:
 

Ravyn Rant

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Good Lord!!! Hope you are OK now.. How awful... and that commercial seems to be taken more seriously in general nowadays since those of us who first saw it are older..:sad46:

I'm still waiting on an orthopedic appointment, so I'm splinted up and resting the leg. The number of painkillers prescribed makes me wonder how long I'll have to wait for the specialist. Ah, health care in the US...I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
The Amazing Mr. Rant is taking the best care of me that he can, considering he's been on disability with a bad shoulder and can't lift much. It's a challenge. I'm hoping for the best outcome.
 

CaroLiza_fan

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That sounds like a good way of accidentally coming across a fanfiction gold mine. :laugh:

I tried out the search to see what came up, and I found some fan fiction. But I decided not to bother linking to it, because the page was very long and the ice skating part was a fair bit down. And I thought that chances are that people would start reading from the start and get fed up before they reached the ice skating part. So, I decided to link to that picture instead.

But, if anybody does want to read the Fan Fiction I found, here it is:

https://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=2493

Leonard Nimoy played Master Xehanort in the last Kingdom Hearts game that I played in English. I've only played the Japanese versions since. Then Master Xehanort's first Japanese voice actor died. So I got to be sad over the same character's voice actor twice. :cry:

Oh boys but he was a great voiceover actor. I can't think about the original "Transformers" film (as is the cartoon one) without thinking of him.

Didn't realise that he did computer games too. I just looked up the character, and boys but the start of 2015 must have been a surreal and very upsetting time for fans of the game. Losing the 2 best known voices of the same character in the space of only a few weeks.

No, I usually don't watch TV, just Netflix or YT :D

Ah, I may only be in my early-mid thirties, but I'm old school when it comes to TV. I mainly watch proper linear TV. The only things I watch online are figure skating (because it is not on Eurosport any more :mad: ) and ski sports on the Eurosport Player (because the linear channels do not show competitions in full).

But my hubby and me are actually just going through all the shows as I hadn't watched most ST before. We watched TNG + films, Enterprise, Discovery, now we're busy with DS9 and Picard. Looking forward to Voyager as well!

I watched the "Original Series", "Next Generation", and "Voyager" back in the late nineties, and enjoyed them. For some reason, I didn't really get into "Deep Space 9". And I was away at Uni when "Enterprise" was on (you could only get a pretty bad terrestrial signal at the Halls Of Residence). But then I didn't watch any of the newer stuff until I spotted the first of the new films on the TV over Christmas. And I thought "well, I may as well give it a try to see what it's like". And it was actually quite good, so I have been waiting for the next one to appear. And now it has. :biggrin:

There was actually a funny coincidence. The day before we watched the 2009 film, we watched "Snow Dogs". And Nichelle Nichols was in it. So, when Zoe Saldana appeared as Uhura, I turned around to my Mum and commented "boys, she's a brave bit younger than she was yesterday!" :laugh:

I hope it was Earl Grey? :coffee:

I meant tea as in my evening meal. :p

Funnily enough, I don't actually drink tea. Or coffee, for that matter. I mostly just live on water. And a mug of milk with my breakfast.

Anyway, since I haven't been talking to you before, welcome to the forum! I hope you have a great time on here. :)

CaroLiza_fan
 

Ichatdelune

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So... I went to say I quit at the English academy, I was hoping for a "Master has given Dobby a sock! Dobby is free" scenario but of course that wasn't going to happen. But it did reach a good compromise of sorts, I make the Sparknotes-esque summaries at home and send them within the due date, when the list is finished my time there is officially over. A bittersweet ending, but it's the best ending that could've been. And now I am free to use my 4CC ticket to the max and go to official practice
 

Ducky

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No, I usually don't watch TV, just Netflix or YT :D But my hubby and me are actually just going through all the shows as I hadn't watched most ST before. We watched TNG + films, Enterprise, Discovery, now we're busy with DS9 and Picard. Looking forward to Voyager as well!

DS9 is sooooo good.

And Teen Ducky feels so vindicated that liking Star Trek is now a fine and dandy thing, even a cool thing.
 

Snorlax

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@Ducky: It even gets better - today, one can be a Star Wars AND a Star Trek fan at the same time, without being chastized! :party:
 

CaroLiza_fan

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I was just looking through YouTube for videos of a particular skater. And I stumbled across a series of grainy videos of a competition from donkey's years ago. And whilst skimming through it to see if I could find the skater I was looking for, I was surprised to spot my current skating crush in it. :shocked:

And now I am feeling pretty pleased with myself for just realising it was her. Because she has changed a LOT since then.

She was only 10 when the video was recorded, but she looked even younger that that. Put it like this: if I hadn't have known the date of the competition, I would have said with confidence that she was at most 7. (I should add at this point that it says in her ISU Bio that she didn't start skating until she was 8). So I can't quite believe how much she matured between then and when I first saw her as a Junior skater just a few years later, where she looked a good bit older than she was.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, I did find the skater that I was looking for. It wasn't actually that difficult to spot her. Because, apart from the things associated with growing up, she has barely changed at all in the intervening years.

CaroLiza_fan
 

ancientpeas

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In case any of you ever wondered: I might have an anger management problem. I was shoveling my very long driveway and we got a lot of snow and the plow came through (which is fine I'm on a busy road) but he knocked over the pile where I had shoveled the snow and basically undid all my work at the bottom of the driveway. I swore so much I probably turned the air blue and I'm quite creative with my insults. Now I'm going to take some pain medication for my sore back and maybe take a nap before the free at 4CC.
 

ancientpeas

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I was just looking through YouTube for videos of a particular skater. And I stumbled across a series of grainy videos of a competition from donkey's years ago. And whilst skimming through it to see if I could find the skater I was looking for, I was surprised to spot my current skating crush in it. :shocked:

And now I am feeling pretty pleased with myself for just realising it was her. Because she has changed a LOT since then.

She was only 10 when the video was recorded, but she looked even younger that that. Put it like this: if I hadn't have known the date of the competition, I would have said with confidence that she was at most 7. (I should add at this point that it says in her ISU Bio that she didn't start skating until she was 8). So I can't quite believe how much she matured between then and when I first saw her as a Junior skater just a few years later, where she looked a good bit older than she was.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, I did find the skater that I was looking for. It wasn't actually that difficult to spot her. Because, apart from the things associated with growing up, she has barely changed at all in the intervening years.

CaroLiza_fan

What is the longest you've ever fallen down a youtube rabbit hole? It's scary how much time you can spend on youtube without realizing how much time has passed.
 

Snorlax

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Someone just popped a random question into the general chat in Overwatch:

"Did you ever sit down and wonder why the person who discovered cow milk pulled the cow...parts in the first place?"

Now I wonder why someone, a long time ago, pulled on cow tits.
 

hanyuufan5

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Someone just popped a random question into the general chat in Overwatch:

"Did you ever sit down and wonder why the person who discovered cow milk pulled the cow...parts in the first place?"

Now I wonder why someone, a long time ago, pulled on cow tits.

I have briefly contemplated how long it must have taken and how many people must have died before mankind figured out what is edible and what isn't. Only briefly, because even that freaked me out...

As for milking cows, I wonder if the first person to try it was a little kid who just yanked 'em because they just thought it would be fun. :laugh:
 

Snorlax

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I have briefly contemplated how long it must have taken and how many people must have died before mankind figured out what is edible and what isn't. Only briefly, because even that freaked me out...

I wonder if it's a subconcious/genetic/primal instinct thing? How else would most animals know what to eat and what to avoid? :scratch3:

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that humans just followed a solid trial-and-error scheme. Just think about the fact that someone must've tried eating rotten milk and they've possibly witnessed it go off. So, after having sour milk AND experiencing the stink of it, they THEN decided to leave it some more day (or forgot about it), then ate it, and then discovered that it's actually tasty... :eek:
 

ancientpeas

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There is an ancient berry (not sure of it's name) that if you eat it even one day before it is fully ripe will cause you the kind of gastro that makes you wish you were dead but if eaten when ripe is delicious and very nutritious. I always wonder who discovered this and how. Which came first? Did someone get deathly ill and then someone else thought they'd just give a go to make sure?
 
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