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Peter_in_2780 wrote: So far I haven't forgotten, I can assure you, you will only forget it once (even if you survive and live 100 years more)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We arranged my wedding for the day before my birthday. Very hard to forget!
What's surprising is that after the date had been arranged, I learned that my new sister-in-law had the same birthday and same wedding anniversary!
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Forget them early in the relationship, lowers the expectation. If the wife wants me to react to an event she has to tell me prior to the event, NOT after I am already in the sh*t!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Chicken broth made from scratch and cooling.
Blueberry pie in the oven.
What did not fit in the dishwasher is clean and put away. Dishwasher doing it's Rosie thing. 5 points if anyone can tell me the reference
In laws 60 minutes out. They live 5 houses up the street. They are in their late 80s, mil has mid to mid+ dementia and FIL is hanging in there. We use this as an excuse to keep eyes on them. For those of you with elderly parents, they will lie through their teeth and tell you all is well. Don't buy it. That's the negative side.
The positive side? BLUEBERRY PIE WITH SCRATCH CRUST. Nom nom nom.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The Jetsons
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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+5 for you. I can still hear her voice, "Work work work, all day long, no one appreciates me."
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Every time an American mentions blueberry pie, i think of bilberry* pie. My mother used to make them in the summer, and apple pies in the winter. My mouth waters just thinking of them.
*a quite different berry that one never sees these days.
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Bilberry
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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But the taste (as I remember it from about 60 years ago) is very different.
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never ceases to amaze me how you can learn weird things from the lounge. Billberries? Read the link posting, very interesting.
Pie came out great. Crust made with lard is wonderful (don't use Crisco, it went to the dark side and is crap now), and I'm having a slice for breakfast. At 10am, the doc pulls more blood to then tell me I've been bad, but that's another story.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My grandmother used to make a great meal for me when I visited her.
Steak and Kidney pie followed by Eccles cake. Never go near the kitchen when the kidneys are cooking!
Never seen either on the left side of the pond. I don't even recall seeing currants.
(that is left as in geography, not politics)
My mother was born over there, family moved to Canada, then to the USA.
We asked her for the eccles cake recipe and her answer was something like "a little of this and then a lot of that, then bake until done".
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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We have Steak & Kidney pudding quite often (shop bought i'm afraid). But I haven't eaten an Eccles cake for years; probably since I lived in Manchester.
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charlieg wrote: They are in their late 80s, mil has mid to mid+ dementia and FIL is hanging in there. We use this as an excuse to keep eyes on them. For those of you with elderly parents, they will lie through their teeth and tell you all is well. Don't buy it.
Frankly late 80s is a pretty good run before reaching mid/mid+ dementia. My mom was 67 when she was diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's, and by the time she was 72 my dad was so stressed out his doctor convinced him she had to be moved into a nursing home, or he was gonna be the one who dropped first.
That was harsh.
3 weeks after she moved out of the house, Covid hit and everybody went into lock-down. For months, all that was allowed in terms of visits was to stand outside and talk (shout) through her window, which couldn't even be opened. That did more for her rapid decline than anything else. It wasn't long after that she couldn't name anyone, and wasn't aware she was married and had children.
Look after your father-in-law, and your wife and her siblings. They're the ones who will feel it the most.
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I agree with a good run. She is just very abusive when in private. FIL has about reached the point about putting her in assisted living but that will surely start a war. I have had private discussions with FIL to make sure he takes care of himself. She sleeps about 3 hours/day and won't go to bed until 5am or so. If he fails to get up when she does, she'll rip the covers off the bed.
"take care of fil, wife and others"
One of the reason I "retired." My wife's last day at work is tomorrow. Then we'll be together 24x7. This will be very interesting.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: FIL has about reached the point about putting her in assisted living but that will surely start a war.
My mother looked after her own parents when they both got dementia. Based on her own experiences, she always said she did not want to be sent to a nursing home.
So when the day came, we told her she was going to be checked out by a doctor in a hospital...I guess she wasn't aware enough of her surroundings to notice she was in a nursing home and not a hospital. When it came time for us to leave (even though the doctor never came, she realized), we told her they were keeping her overnight "for observation". In other words, a bold-faced lie.
And then they tell you that you can't come back the very next day; they advised us to wait at least a week for her to get used to things.
Now...as polite as she was, my mother's never really been particularly sociable, and never really did well among strangers, especially if she was totally on her own. So you can just imagine what must've gone through her head when she realized we were nowhere to be found.
When we went back a week after...well, let's just say the guilt my dad felt ate away at him for years. He still gets emotional talking about it and we all avoid discussing "that day".
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