Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "VICE" channel.

  1. Perhaps, but it didn't teach you manners, apparently.
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  2. Jon Gardner You are judgmental.
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  3. I found the bull culture around Arles, France very interesting.  The bulls are a smallish black breed with big horns.  They live at free range -- there are signs up warning drivers, and the villages have signs up reminding that the appearance of a bull might happpen.  The Camargue horses also live free range.  I think the bullfighting season is October.  Traditionally, the bulls are not spiked or killed.  Colored strings are tied to their horns and the objective is to pluck off the strings.  They want to pick the most agile, smart and strong bulls because it raises their market value for breeding.  After a fight the bull returns to pasture with its higher rating.  Unfortunately, in the huge arena in Arles which looks like the Colosseum in Rome (and is Roman) audiences seem to want blood.  You can go to local farm and village events to see riding and bull demonstrations.  Bull meat tastes good and has to be flash seared.  So eventually, the animals are killed for meat, hides and other parts.  Hey, in the Roman theatre nearby, people had sex and got murdered in the performances.  Bloodlust, really.  Back in the day, a thumbs up meant "kill" and a thumbs down meant "spare the life."
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  4. Hm ... I thought she did very well and remained very focused.
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  5. lennygel666 How nasty.  If you wonder if I'm Jewish, I'm not.  But that's hateful talk.
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  6. It isn't high-functioning autism.  It is a developmental disability, is genetic, kicks in within hours of conception.  The classification has been changed and it's no longer in the autism category.  Autism seems to set in after birth and is related to something toxic, such as a vaccine, or other outside thing after birth.  Asperger's is usually passed from father to son, but does occur in females.  Sometimes called "idiot-savants," which is not correct.  They tend to be focused on a passion, such as the history of one thing, and can cite incredible detail about it.  They find it hard to establish and maintain relationships, are highly biddable.  Have a hard time functioning fully, may have speech quirks, be loquacious, can absolutely work but need a constantly structured environment.  The absence of ability to pick up on social cues is apparent.  Often extremely clumsy.  Frequently have little or no conception of time, so require supervision.  Tend to talk at people rather to them, problems with empathy.  Vulnerable, as they are not usually hard to take advantage of.  May appear intelligent or bright, can fake it frequently for a time.  Have problems with certain things, such as sounds, textures, it's a processing problem.  Easy victims.  Many people say they've been diagnosed with autism and actually it's Asperger's, which is not autism.  Hope this helps.
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  7. Most cops I knew in NYC had no problem with the crime going on, they just wanted their slice.
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  8. When people say, "God bless you," when you sneeze, that is from Saint Gregory.  He was unable to perform last rites for all the people dying of plague, so when he heard them sneeze, he said that as a quickie benediction, because a sneeze meant you'd probably be dead within three days, maximum.  Plague still breaks out periodically.
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  9. Good clip, uprated, shared.  The Dakota was, indeed, pretty impressive as a locale.
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  10. Oscar Eliasson For shame.  Calling me by your mother's name.
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  11. Oscar Eliasson I am not on social networks.  Strong language is uncalled for.  I will be here if I please.
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  12. I don't.
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  13. ***** I remember when it was 50% for the wealthy, until Reagan was elected.  It was actually worn as a badge of pride and all the ones who were rich I met were glad to pay -- they just went and made MORE money!  Here in France, it could be considered at 75% for the rich, but that's not the whole picture, as you have to quantify in other factors, such as the quality of life they get for it, et c.  One benefit, the stipend for each child, is not means-tested, and very few rich want to leave France, despite what the media may say.  People die to GET here, few want to LEAVE here.  France is far from perfect, however.  If you're very poor here, you are free from income tax but if you insist on luxuries, the VAT will get you, and everyone must pay an "inhabitation tax," and a TV tax, and so on.  The middle classes even get a sliding scale, and if you watch what you spend on, you can keep the VAT bite down.  Poor, working and middle classes here qualify for excellent subsidized housing.  It isn't dreadful, generally -- people long to get into an HLM.  I've lived through five major recessions in my life, on two continents, and started to see the American middle class whupped starting in the early '70s.  I hear you on your points.  When working poor and middle classes are crushed, that's a house of cards.
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  14. The colors shouldn't matter.  It was a heinous act.
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  15. Frank Bennett The coffee shops of Amsterdam closed a few years ago.  You need to be a resident and registered to buy marijuana.  It created kind of a secondary, black market.  Dumb they did that! 
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  16. Mew [Jacob/PwnAzn] Hi, dog!  :)  No, they are not sure about the vaccines, but I do know a man whose perfectly normal kids, two of them, immediately became autistic after vaccination.  He had discussed it with his wife and was opposed to it, but she wanted it, so they did it, and they are both really, severely autistic and need CONSTANT care.  It really seems likely to be linked with toxicity.  It's just exploded in many countries, especially ones with fluoridated tap water.  Please don't swear at me or be rude, it isn't necessary.  You can always contradict me, but please be polite. 
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  17. SWay Kills I do understand your points.  I was a consultant for nine years to the Haute Authorité de Santé, a blood organization and an organ transplant organization here in France.  The Authorité used to the the French Health Ministry.  I've lectured at universities and also been selected and paid to speak to groups of doctors and nurses here in France.  I'm a former research assistant, too, in the States, and did formal studies in statistics.  I've also been an analyst and understand flawed studies and potential flaws in statistics.  I do.  Have a good day!
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  18. Good, and shared, but I take issue with the moderator calling 9/11 "terrorist attack(s)." 
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  19. Shared, uprated.
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  20. "No," not "nah."  (I am teasing you -- good comment in a way ... )  I was born in '57, poor, white, sickly (foetal alcohol syndrome, then a vaccine), female -- statistically the worst things to be in the USA.  I had no idea, which is probably a good thing.  I was so naive and obtuse, when I got tired of having no coat, no food and being shown the door at 18, endured five years of vagabondage and have been homeless three times in my life on two continents, it's just as well I didn't realize my own limitations.  Greetings from France via the USA (Ohio).  Good luck, Ben.
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  21. Yes, that was dreadful.  I uprated your comment.
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  22. TrajanaFortis Reihan is trying to do the best he can, I think.  I really have no problem with Tracy.  What do you want her to do, jump into another persona?  She is the interviewee.
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  23. Deante Frazier It's been reclassified.  It is not autism.  It's a developmental disability.
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  24. Angelwings7deutschen No it is not.
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  25. Uprated, shared.  Brings back memories ... oops!  I mean, stuff I read ... !!
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  26. I have an old friend who did a movie long ago with Mel Gibson.  I asked her what he's like and she just said, "Well ... he's no Rhodes scholar."
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  27. Oscar Eliasson Not with me, you won't.  This channel is not blocked for children to see.  Shame on you.
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  28. Idiot people raping nature.
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  29. Shared, uprated.  Interesting and quite good.
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  30. They eat cats there, too.  I live in France, where we eat horses.  Rabbits.  A lot of stuff.  So it goes. 
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  31. Hoagie Boy Hoagies are nice.
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  32. I'm going to try to get my French husband to look for this at our library here in France.  We love documentaries and he found the USA quite interesting.
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  33. At the one minute thirty point, I have that very same kind of table, just in brighter colors.  I found mine in the trash in Brooklyn in the early '90s.  Those are very handy, tend to extend, have drawers, and were done in the USA in the '30s.  The simulation of marquetry on plain metal was seen as a cheaper fakeout than doing wood inlay and all.  Once hard times improved, many people threw those tables out!  These are very useful, sturdy, easy to clean.  If you find one, buy it!  At the very least these are reliable.  :)
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  34. ***** They're really great tables and are extendable.  The fake marquetry was seen as cheap looking to people when things got better so a lot of the old tables got pitched.  You found a nice one, I love the muted colors on the top! 
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  35. Uprated, shared.
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  36. Horrible, but a good clip, well done, have to uprate and share it.  I remember in NYC, at the NE corner of East Tenth Street and First Avenue, there was until surprisingly recently a place featuring bear-baiting!  There were dog-against-rat places, with tons of dogs and rats buried in the cellar, raw boxing, McGurk's Suicide Hall, all kinds of stuff.  I could see the remnants of some of it in the '70s and was able to get into some of the places and see the old ceilings, fixtures, wow!  I recall on Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at 24th Street I think it was, there was a building where I noticed an elaborate inscription up high, chiseled in, indicating a place with an arrow.  It was a famous bordello.  I recommend the book LOW LIFE by Luc Santé. 
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  37. Well, I live in France and much of Europe eats horses, rabbits, et c.  Stray dogs and cats do get grabbed, but I think they're mostly stripped for their fur.  They can certainly be eaten, if that's what you want or need to do.  I think it's a choice and matter of conscience.
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  38. ***** Not a good idea to operate machinery on weed.  Nor do anything requiring good coordination.  Some people do not tolerate marijuana.  Some people, it makes them sleepy, depressed, nauseous.  I've seen this.  Some others get paranoid on it.  I knew one guy who smoked a little then stabbed his father 100 or so times for no reason.  The father survived, but mutilated, his life ruined.  The son, in prison and with psychiatric evaluation, has no idea why smoking a little pot did that to him.  He agrees, it was without cause.  I smoked for years but if I overdid it, I noticed a strange chillblain type thing on my front ankles.  I found another frequent smoker, male, who had the exact same thing happen to him.  He had been smoking a lot, too.  As soon as we cut back, the problem cleared up, never to return in either of us.  I quit permanently over 20 years ago.  Too expensive.  Demotivating.  Altered my judgment.  Not badly, but I noted it.  I do love hemp oil and use it here in France inside and out.  I'm interested in the tincture of cannabis now legal in Belgium for medical purposes -- no way to get high off it.  Everyone I knew in the pot business in the States was involved with organized crime, the scary stuff.  They were also vehemently against legalization, because it would kill their cash cow.  They often colluded to push prices up.  It just wasn't worth it anymore.  I did find it nice, but it made me lazy, hungry, lusty.  :)
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  39. Frank Bennett Doesn't look like it!  My gal pal here in Paris worked in a coffee shop for two years in Amsterdam.  Unfortunately, she found that for her, the pot did lead to hard drugs and she realized, I HAVE TO LEAVE NOW!  We laugh about it.  That's never supposed to happen!  She only has a little champagne at Christmas and New Year's and is fine now!  That's just her, however.  She is from the UK and prefers the Continent, so she's here now and created and set up her own business in France.  The coffee shops were super nice.  That was the only place you were supposed to smoke, or at home, but I found those shops on a long visit very cool, I'd say, I'm pretty much a non-smoker at this point, I just want something light, what do you suggest?  They'd show me the book, with page after page of samples of little bags of pot, hash, seeds, as you liked.  They also had them for sale ready-rolled, which was handy!  Amsterdam is nice!  There is something there for everyone, most likely, even, still!  I have one old friend still there, and another good acquaintance right nearby.  I recommend Utrecht, also.  It's incredible, but book early, it's in high demand!  I am a former sex worker in the States and my French spouse had stayed awhile in Amsterdam and had a blast there, he bought his only tattoo and had Hanky Panky do it, he loved the museums, architecture, walking, canals, boating, and the Red Light District, he once went for four in a row!  He said everything was nice, clean in the registered places, you be clear what you want, be polite, everything is good.  Street hookers, watch out.  The Tippelzone didn't work out and is gone.  Good shopping, foods of the world, I enjoyed the tramway, it's just fine.  I'm sure it's really hurt their tourism there to close the coffee shops!  Now, you have to deal with dealers, who wants that??  Be careful about the weather when you go.  It's super cold in the Winter and July and August are NEVER for Europe and Scandinavia, it's unbearably hot and crowded and EXPENSIVE!  Here in France we go early season, may, and late season, September, twice a year and we have done vacations at other odd times of the year in Alsace, Rome and so on but we researched the weather to be informed.  Yeah, good luck after college.  I got two degrees in the sciences, with honors, and I can't really say it did me any good jobwise, in fact it was sometimes a problem, but I worked my way through, no debt, and enjoyed the studies despite the pressure, so fine!  Amsterdam is likely still a good tourist destination, anyway.  Just don't expect to smoke there!  I was there in early November, cold but not at all uncomfortable.  I think it was a five day long weekend, very stretched out.  No idea where to suggest for legal smoking, left the USA 21 years ago, quit smoking EONS ago.  Study hard!  xo
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  40. Dexter Morgan "You're," and kindly refrain from strong language.  Thank you.
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  41. AnsticePalo I know, how dumb was that?  I knew a family in NYC.  One family member worked with the city -- "garbage man" kind of thing.  All the confiscated drugs were incinerated.  The workers duly threw them in, per orders, yet then plucked some from the top of the pile.  Technically, it had been correctly placed in the incinerator.  But they could yank some out and they quickly had a dealing business going on.  Here's the sad part:  many became urban pot growers.  They were DEAD SET against legalization.  They didn't want their cash cows killed.  I got new friends.
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  42. AnsticePalo I think either bring on huge problems, and wow do I know it personally! 
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  43. AnsticePalo Really.  And I hear you.  I grew up in a very cold house and only the kitchen and right in front of the fireplace were warm.  Tiny water heater, had to wait and take turns.  Ohio.  blecch!  In the Lower East Side, NYC, in the late '70s, proper heating and hot water were not required of slumlords.  Time for the pot of cold water on the gas stove, oven running, burners going!  One day it was so cold inside, the water had frozen so bad in the toilet in that cold-water flat, it cracked the toilet!!!  I hope this young man can be stronger from this and that people can learn from this.  This clip is pretty educational!  If you have a criminal record in France ... even your distant relatives may not be able to get the jobs they apply for, also if anyone is in debt trouble.  Kids who commit crimes are usually taken from the parents and not given back (often) -- and they cannot ever get certain jobs, even basic ones, ever.  I actually know some abused adults (as children) who were in foster care here in France, even one in a full orphanage all her young life, and the foster care people said it was good and it was just worse if they were returned home!  The orphanage lady, I have a clip up named GILBERTE you might like!  xoxoxoxoxo
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  44. Depressing America ... humans ...
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  45. Interesting.  Uprated.
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  46. Horrible boors.
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  47. My 17 years in NYC ... not all good by any means, but I wouldn't trade 'em!  Happy new year! 
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  48. Johan Eichmann You may have to do some research yourself, get hard copy of the findings, and share it with doctors.  I had to do that over here in France to end a long depression of ten years.  (I am American-born.)  I found something unusual we could try, I got them the documentation in French, was specific about what I felt would work, and they all agreed, yes, short term under supervision, I could try it.  Bingo!  Gone in two days, completely gone in two weeks (apparently, 2% of the population will respond to that and are otherwise treatment-resistent).  My usual treatment stopped by the end of the six weeks we'd all agreed on.  I knew a guy for decades with Asperger's, undiagnosed until he was in his late 50s.  Very sad.  He really had it, too, BIG TIME.  He'd suffered all his life and also did damage, inadvertently.  Didn't have a mean bone in his body.  He kept INSISTING he was okay.  He just COULD NOT SEE IT!  I really hope you can sort it out with them.  Don't give up, please.  Hit the books!
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  49. ploglo13 Well ... I have a response here you might want to read with two examples.  It was dramatic and disastrous.
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  50. Well, this is too much info.  I do live in France now and they expect people to have sex, it's okay to be close in public and obviously enamored generally, but they also have a discreet side and the "cinq à sept" is considered very proper.  She really has dreadful teeth.  I am lucky to have gotten six passionate years with this French husband before he got bored with me.  Men usually do.  If she's very wet, she's probably also fertile, and ought to be super careful.  I am a former sex worker and was able to keep everything very clean and safe.  It was good for me, I was too inhibited and inexperienced.  I did uprate this but I think I'll skip this series.
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  51. Could be.  There's quite a good book on this story, which will be enough for me.
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  52. I got a hardcover copy of this book on the subject ASAP.  Very interesting and I've read it a few times. 
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  53. Uprated.
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  54. Uprated, shared.  Very good!
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  55. Vegans might taste good!
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  56. Kasper Sørensen I don't think a lot of people are willing to accept that plants are sentient.
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  57. I am in France now and children born here of one or both parents not French are not French.  The child can decide at 18 which citizenship it prefers.  It isn't automatic.  I had to go through years of trials to become French, as an American.  My life in the USA was untenable.  It has been quite a journey and a trial.
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  58. civilian That's very interesting.  I still know Americans with no Soc Sec number, and neither of my parents had birth certificates.  My own American birth certificate was incomplete -- I guess they were busy and didn't feel the time and stuff was important.  It drove the French nuts and I really couldn't make them grasp such a thing. 
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  59. I don't feel too bad about eating an animal which is not endangered.  Interesting look from that woman at the dog meat meal table to the presenter. 
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  60. Uprated.
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  61. My husband here in Paris has a cousin, mixed blood, who was a skateboard star and had sponsors.  He immediately went to drugs and blew it all.  I started skateboarding in the USA around 1965.  I don't know why people think this sort of thing will be a longterm career.  I enjoyed NYC for 17 years and promoted a zine called DON'T SKATE when I did NYC radio. 
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  62. Oscar Eliasson I'm 57.
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  63. Christen Stephansen There you go again ... addressing me as you would your mother, and using one of her names.
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  64. yeow
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  65. Ashes Mandalay Good, you can read. If you feel I'm condescending, finey fine.
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  66. Ashes Mandalay I haven't told anyone to shut up.  I keep saying okay, finey fine.
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  67. Are you a journalist?
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  68. Tj Andersen If you are not a journalist, how can you judge?  I am a journalist and have been since '75.  It is relevent. 
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  69. Tj Andersen Your comment was unqualified.  I'm not saying it's invalid.  Unqualified.
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  70. Tj Andersen My point is that you certainly are obtuse.
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  71. Tj Andersen The obtuse do fail to see.
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  72. ***** Well, that at least is an on-point answer, thank you.  I did require vetting in order to get my press passes and wire service activity access, on three continents.  Thank you for your opinion, your view.
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  73. Rui Nation So be it.  My choice to be in twat-land.
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  74. walterbennetsen Fine.  I don't understand your statement, but fine.  I don't need to.  Be well.
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  75. Rui Nation Ha ha ha ha ha!!  My stuff is up on YT and Dailymotion, stuff for the past four years!!!  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!  If you want to see my CV (it's in French, but you'll recognize the years and names and titles), send me yours and I'll send you mine.  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
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  76. Aaron Chartier You don't have to finish your journalism studies and get a diploma to work as a journalist -- particularly abroad.  Diplomas and professional certifications, licenses, do not export.  Not for doctors, nurses, electricians, accountants, engineers, et c.  You can obtain an equivalency but it still isn't accepted -- you have to learn the new language, the legal system, the administration, the methods, and obtain further certification in the new country.  You can legally be an unpaid intern abroad for awhile.  In some places.  If you're a teacher in one country, okay, but it doesn't transfer (easily) to another country.  (I know -- I was a registered representative in the USA -- I could work in European and Asian "Wall Street" but wasn't registered -- I've been a visiting professor at university level in Europe, et c.  I had full citizenship in the new country, however, and was capable in the new language, had a good CV in their language, et c.)  I did fine studying journalism formally but couldn't see why I ought to finish for the diploma, since I was already working, and I really didn't get much out of the classes.  I got honors grades, but so what?  So, I started in the USA at age 18, 19.  In order for me to work in Europe, I can now, because I am a full EU citizen.  My pay level in France will be limited, however, by my level of FRENCH education.  That is how France works.  You need a two-year diploma here to be a real restaurant worker, waiter, day care employee, et c.  They do find it good if you have experience elsewhere -- very good -- but you're not fully up to speed until THEY say so.  If you'd like to hear me on Radio France from '13, the clip is up on Dailymotion under LisaFalour, from about February or March of '13.  I decided to post that one -- it was funny, I thought, and France voted it the program they'd like to hear rebroadcast out of all the others on Radio France for Christmas in '13.  It's in French, but that's me.  I insist, you do not need a diploma to be a journalist, to be affiliated with a wire service, to freelance, et c.  You do need a work permit in order to do serious, declared work.
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  77. josh h Well, maybe I'm an idiot, retired journalist and you are right.  If you want to e-mail your CV, I'll e-mail you mine.  I also have a lot of clips up showing my published articles and other published materials since the '70s, here on YT.  I'm also an author, a publisher and a contributing editor.  I was nominated for The Pushcart Prize.  If that's BS, yes, okay.
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  78. roger supernova I'm not sure there's any solution.
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  79. szymborski11 We're all devo!
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  80. Roxanne J. Baril-Bédard I cannot help but correct your grammar.  It's "more important," not "more importantly."  A lot of people do that and it's incorrect.  You are confusing an adjective with an adverb and misplacing them.  You'll need perfect diction and grammar for communications.
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  81. Sad!
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  82. ***** I know.  The businesses I worked in kept money in two places.  Plenty to give up if shaken down or robbed, but not all in one place.  If it came to that, they just gave it up.
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  83. ***** Agreed.  Even when negotiating for a cash deal, it's best to show up with the amount you'd actually prefer to pay, which is less, and say that's all you could raise.  If there is negotiation, you can then reluctantly pull out some more from elsewhere and say, this is for my bills this season!  And the rest is in a third place.  I was mugged in NYC on my birthday in '81.  Subway mugging.  I'd happened to have 400 USD in my handbag.  Apparently (I was unconscious) they were delighted and took that, threw the bag in a trash can nearby and I got it back within 24 hours from the police, including a bag of weed, which they didn't care about!  I was annoyed to lose the cash, and normally did not carry that amount but I was on my way to settle some bills in cash on a special day, so really, I just accepted it.  Besides a bruised face and being locked out of my apartment for awhile (some transit cops helped me break in via a fire escape!) I just chalked it up to education.
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  84. Uprated, shared.
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  85. Fun!  Decades ago, not in the country I live in now a long time, I got into the demi-monde, shall we say.  I was the weirdo who always kept a straight job, et c.  It actually wasn't a temptation to go full-time.  I saw what was happening and made sure I didn't actually KNOW any specifics.  This is a good interview and funny but grim.  Uprated.
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  86. If people have Borderline Personality Disorder, they also tend to abuse things and will fail rehab EVERY TIME.  Really sad, her mother says "Oxy-Cotton."  Stupid.  Well, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, even though I think she wasn't the biological mother of Alexis, if I understood that correctly.  People don't realize, once they've had a substance abuse habit, no one can ever really trust them again.  They might love them and forgive them, but forget about the trust; people would be insane to do that, anyway.  I struggle to stay sober off alcohol and I come from a long line of alcoholics on BOTH sides of the family.  I was even born with foetal alcohol syndrome, which wasn't diagnosed until in my 40s, here in Europe.  It causes all kinds of problems for the kid when pregnant women drink, even a little.  I wish her luck.  People don't realize, once they've lost their health, you can't get it back, a lot of the damage is irreversible.  Very good documentary clip, thank you.  Uprated.
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  87. Val_I_Ross Over the decades, my American whiteness has gotten me backlash from this kind of hateful nonsense.  I wasn't "helped" by any of this sad crap.  I don't see how anyone could be, now that I think of it.
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  88. I found them good (usually).  Also most of the men like that.
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  89. bill swedan Oh, of course, direct correlation.  That unfortunate teacher surely may have been reincarnated somehow, eh?  Sure.
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  90. Yes, they are starting out low and staying there.
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  91. Uprated, shared.  Very nice!  A peek.  I like to those pretty long dresses the ladies wear.  I enjoyed what I knew of Arirang in NYC and here in Paris.  I hear they suppress women, but I don't know personally.
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  92. This is a very brave man.  I'm an American and live abroad with a new citizenship, and it was quite a journey.  I also applaud him for being gay so long ago.
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  93. *****
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  94. ***** Thanks for pointing out to me the message I thought I'd lost and couldn't find posted not-ready.  I've had too many "who tf are you's?!" on YT since '08 so I try to be proactive.  But ... about once a month I seem to make a bad keyboard move, and BLIP!!  :)
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  95. SuperiorRobyn Even BATHING in fluoridated tap water is nuts.
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  96. Rebuilt Gearbox Horrible, eh?  I don't know what I'd eat or drink were I back in the USA.  GMO corn gave me immediate, severe asthma-like symptoms.  I'd tried some samples from one of our clients in NYC, SARATOGA CHIPS, and had that reaction immediately.  I told the boss and found out that the client knew this, didn't care, was getting rich.  Yes, for table salt in the USA, I think I heard decades ago not to use it, to use sea salt, et c.  I barely use it at all here in France -- my spouse doesn't like salt -- I'm not supposed to eat it -- but if it's really necessary chemically for a recipe, I use sea salt or hand-raked sea salt ("fleur de sel").  Took me years to clear up those asthma-like symptoms -- went to Iceland, that did the trick.  sigh
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  97. finfan7 Your comment was not addressed to me.  I agree with some of your points, and not others, necessarily ... if you want me to elaborate, let me know and I can try to get back to it. 
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  98. It's interesting.  I haven't owned a TV for well over 20 years, and only owned one for 15 years before, in the States.  (I live in Europe now.)  I have no portable phone, no wifi, no microwave oven, and only got online at home in '07.  I feel better than I ever felt in the USA.  I've been able to get the work and creative endeavours done as I never could there, and I have no anxiety or sadness.
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  99. John Squattingson Off-point.  Please do not obfuscate.
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  100. John Squattingson Oh, and what, pray, am I lying about?  Please be specific.  That's quite an accusation.  "you're," nor "your" 
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  101. John Squattingson I'm not sure which claim you speak of.  You have not been specific twice now.  I asked, what am I lying about, and since you don't specify, I wonder, do you mean, how am I posting this?  I said your question is off-point.
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  102. Chad Nelson I avoided those things in the USA, too.  But the USA became untenable for me.  When your child dies, it's a dealbreaker.
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  103. John Morris Oh, well.  So it goes.  Yak hair makes nice wigs!  ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE has some on Blanchett and Hiddleston.  Yak-free you are! 
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  104. Jon Gardner Some judgment is prudent, with careful consideration, in place.  I find it generally hypocritical, however, and it seems wrong re the Ten Commandments and the Nine Deadly Sins.
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  105. Uprated, shared.
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  106. The book YOU CAN'T WIN by Jack Black is always a good read. Might be a little hard to find, but worth the look!
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  107. Yes, uprated your comment. People are in full denial and quite stupid.
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  108. This one? From '79? Have at me, baby, if you don't like my looks decades ago.
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