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It's actually not painful at all! I hardly notice my mask any more unless my nose itches or something.

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That makes perfect sense to me. When you're regularly in touch with someone, you have a lot of day-to-day stuff to talk about -- but when you haven't heard from each other in twenty years or so, it's almost like meeting a stranger. If you stay in touch long enough to get re-acquainted, it's OK, but meanwhile you're in a very awkward situation. I don't think your friends meant to make you uncomfortable. They probably thought that if you gradually got back in touch with just a few people that you'd enjoy it. But to them, ten is a few, whereas to you it's a horde. You have my sympathy, but I have no idea what you can do, other than what you're doing. Maybe once people are able to return to their normal life, they'll have neither the time nor the inclination for all those chats. At least you can hope! That is indeed sad. Do you phone your mother regularly? If not, that might help. I'm just glad that this virus didn't arise until after my mother had lived out her life and passed on.

Let me see if I could help: pun, just, no, red, god, 243, the, his, last = 0 nope, sherly, wikipedia, plum pudding, cake, pant, coat, dear = many many hits hudder = 2, pretty sure it was mentioned much more jim = 0, there should be at least one Jim from IT floccinaucinihilipilification: yes it has the perfect amount of hits I think you probably right, words that are to short (three letters) are tend to be ignored, the ignored four letter words perhaps because there are too many of them everyone, and the ones that show up has reasonable amount (not too many) although I'm surprised because I think I talk about cake at least 13017472 times. To conclude, I think the search engine is totally and utterly inept, because we all know there is at least ONE Jim from IT!

I didn't understand until I saw the news. Anyway, a rant that is quite political. I'm appalled of the actual idiocy level of human, this pandemic opens my eyes to confirm that even though I have very low expectation, I'm still surprised. How hard is it to wear a f*&@(^&*@$& mask when you are out in public?! Do they know how painful it is for the health workers to wear it every hours every day?? I mean FFS, if those idiots only harm themselves, by all means, I fully support Darwin's theory and it would be good riddance, the earth is over populated! But when your idiotic actions could harm others, they can regulate you. Just like smoking. How many unnecessary tragic deaths of those being attacked from simply asking you to put a mask in their property/work place needed? I blame the upper idiots who put in those idea, that choosing not to wear mask is f(*^^@**%&%@ right. Argh! DAMN MY LEG!

If you have to replace your toilet seat don't do it halfway man

NOOOOOOOOO Well, I think if you have a cat, an exorcist's number would be handy too.

Few things make me smile in politics these days, but this one got a chuckle out of me: Our German forum members can probably explain it better, but what she's holding here is a Maß, holding a liter (a bit more than two pints), which is the traditional way to drink beer, especially in Bavaria and/or at the Oktoberfest.

The old forum software (before 2018) limited searches to words of four letters or more, so I assume the new (since 2018) has similar rules. Anyhow, I searched on the word "just" and came up with no hits whatsoever -- which is utterly ridiculous. I thought maybe the lower limit had been upped to five letters, and tested that hypothesis by searching on "make" -- which returned thousands of hits. So now I'm wondering if it's something to do with my set-up or if it's a general weirdity. I'm gonna search on some more words that ought to be common here, and post my results below. Would some of you please be so kind as to try the same searches and post your results? Thank you! just -- 0 make -- 9,972 John -- 14,340 must -- 0 bust -- 116 jest -- 22 It's not just four-letter words, either. The other day I was looking for a post that I thought contained the word "mystic," and a search did bring up half a dozen hits -- but not this one, which does indeed contain the word (albeit inside a spoiler box). There have been other times as well, when I've been sure that the post I was looking for contained a certain word, but a search failed to bring it up. If any of you have had similar problems, please post them in this thread. Maybe we'll start to see a pattern. Thanks!

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That’s one kind, although I wouldn’t even really put shows like that (e.g. “Survivor”) in the survivalist category. They’re more like game shows/popularity contests. I was thinking more along the lines of “Naked and Afraid”, “Alaskan Bush People”, “Mountain Men”, “Survivorman”, etc. There are tons of them, it’s apparently a very popular subject. But most of them I would consider to be either too gimmicky or not close enough to actual survival conditions, even if they’re entertaining.

Yes, something like that. Hmmm... I don't think I need to have 'designated area', perhaps you mean an account or something. For me, if I have a photo from internet that I want to keep, or to post on the forum later, I simply save it in my computer or phone and upload it later. Or just a screenshot (which would be stored into certain folder in phone and computer). Anyway, I don't see the need to have account for any purpose that I have now. I used to have photobuckets so that I could share a link for friends who wants to see my pictures (event, trip) but I think social media replaces it, you can just put your pictures there, for me, I simply disappear and stop posting anything but my brother used google drive (free) to share his pictures. He would give us link to access (not public).

So awhile ago I realize that not all introverts would be happy with the situation if they are forced to stay indoor with...people. Lately I found another unpleasant situation for us in this pandemic. For my whole life, somehow I managed to avoid a lot, I mean A LOT of social gathering, I keep loose touch or no touch and it was all good. But just last week, starting from a couple of weeks ago, one person from high school I still keep in touch, errr.. by that I mean we have written chats couple of times a year. I used to ignore his call, because he likes to chat and I don't, but eventhough he is pissed, he understands. He always tries to 'bridge' me to reconnect with my high school friend but I could escape, until he suggested we only do three person chat with my ex-best friend. Well, ex, because we lost touch, we moved apart but there was no falling out. Anyway, I agreed, maybe because of pandemic, maybe because we had tried to reconnect a bit in the past but it didn't work well. So it started okay, we had on and off conversations, but then they suggested to invite others (who were also quite close friends back then), so they were in, and these couple new people suggested more, and before I knew it, it blew up to almost ten people. Originally I tried to go MIA but it was not too big group and I was pressurised to join the conversation because some of the chats were directed to me. And then, to my nightmare, they all agreed to do zoom call. You see, I don't do call, or worse, zoom call, not even with my SO, not even with my family, my mom and my dog. The front camera of my phone and laptop are shut. So I told them to go ahead, as I won't be attending, and gave three excuses, I'am working, I don't have zoom and don't want to install since my phone is full (true stories, I have thousands and thousand of dog pictures, every dog that I have met) and I don't like video call. These are solid excuses, I think the third one should explain it all. BUT NOOOO, what does it call? They tried to make me feel guilty, come on, we are just close buddies, etc etc etc etc etc. So when I have the freedom to avoid meeting in person back then, now with convenience of technology and being made popular by pandemic, suddenly I can't hide anymore. I have to admit it's quite nice seeing them, but it's awkward to me all the same. I don't think we are the same people anymore, at least me. I think we are all scratching the surface if that makes sense. At the very least I'm still able to play dead from my whole high school and university reunion. It doesn't help that it's our silver anniversary, everyone is out for blood to find and locate missing person, only by a friend's mercy (like high school, I only keep in touch with one person from uni) I'm still hidden.

I'm curious! Well, now you can proudly tell Sherlock you actually, literally "Study in Pink"

I don't think it bothers to recognize me, it's probably just post and go and the picture will be there forever. You can post obscene photo anonymously (ehm,, why you want to know this ) but I assume unless you search for it, you have to be the one who put it there to know the uploaded picture code. Tinypic didn't require log in as well, and I believe I posted picture on Imgur without log-in too. Flickr, on the other hand, requires log-in. I remember it was decent, used to put some artwork hobby pictures (somehow there is a community without needing to join, if you post often enough and they like your work, you can gain...eh.. I don't remember what is the term actually, but they follow to know your updates, I believe it's not follower, this is time before twitter. Eventually I kept seeing same people appear to comment on my work, something like that, chatting up and share stuff. I don't think there is some kind of hashtag as well, but it's been loooong time. But it was a nice constructive place about hobby and you communicate mostly through pictures). I can see it fine. I think beside the problems I had sometimes ago, now mostly I'm able to see Caya's pictures, which means there is no problem with Imgur as well. But maybe I'm not here often enough lately for enough sample experience.

I don’t have specific examples at the moment, but I’ve experienced these same issues on many occasions.

Just call him Clarence, eh? That is so awesome! I had no idea that was illegal! Or is it against the rules of some homeowners' associations? Alex and I had thought of buying a few acres for a house, until we discovered that we'd be required to keep the whole thing mowed. We ended up buying a four-acre lot in a different subdivision, and are allowing the edges to revert to meadow and forest. I'd heard it was good, but had no idea it was a musical! Sounds odd, but apparently it works. Do you mean the 1952 version with Richard Todd? I'm reasonably certain that some years later they showed this movie as a "miniseries" on the Disney TV show. I didn't like it as well as the British production that was running on TV at the time, but I was young, and suspect that my preference was largely influenced by Richard Greene's dimples.

I am that reference!

Not at all! I apparently came at it from the wrong end, first misreading "rabbit" as "rabbi" (due to prior experience with such jokes), and then thinking that either "rabbit" was some kind of a pun or maybe the joke had something to do with actual blood types in rabbits. When (hours later) it finally occurred to me that the joke might lie elsewhere, I got it almost immediately (though still not instantly -- so congratulations!).

Considering this is a bad puns thread, should I be ashamed to say that I got it instantly?

As to how my day is actually going .... why do you think I'm self-employed? :D I'm sitting in my nice quiet studio, being not bothered by anything except that damned, pesky telephone ... which I wouldn't even answer except that if I don't, my hard-of-hearing mother does. And so far today it hasn't rung ... which means it will any minute now, but otherwise, my day's not bad at all.

I had a dream where my body exploded and I turned into a thousand spiders last night. Sorry, kinda off topic there.

Im living with my boyfriend at the moment, since uni is still closed. Its hard because of all the people I could have been locked down with, I would choose him, but my mother lives alone far away and I can tell she's lonely. I often go to see her from a distance, but it's never enough. I know that I'm lucky. I'm locked down with someone whom I love very much and who I get along with really well, but it's for that reason I feel painfully sorry for my mother.