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Van Buren Supernova

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    His Last Vow
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  1. https://imgur.com/L6WvB50 I am not sure how to embed image anymore. Nothing seems to work. This my dog Locky enjoying his surf today in the beach. Moderator Comment: You need the .jpeg (or whichever it is) part of the link, or embedding won't work. Some browsers tend to swallow that bit.
  2. I hide here so I don't clog more recent threads. I am in a very happy mood now. There are not many people I can share this with and you guys have been the ones who know me better. I guess I'm more comfortable hiding behind the keyboard. I used to work a decent job, but quit right before covid. There were multiple reasons. The problem of working my 'dream job' is the part when it ruins everything. I learned the ugliness of the industry and it didn't sit well with my conscience. It was also heartbreaking to see my dog waiting for me everyday and this was my biggest reason. I tried a small business that enabled me to spend 24/7 with him, but it was just my luck to start and end it with covid, wiping my life savings along the way. Starting that time, I revive my long-life passion for writing. I have finally received some royalty payment for my books. It's puny, probably won't last a few grocery trips, and I had spent much more than that in expenses, and this is the span of three-years work! However, it feels unbelievable that there are people out there who had spent their hard-earned few bucks and used their precious times to read my works. I am very grateful. I haven't admitted to many friends or family about this because for some reasons, it feels too personal. Weird, yes, but I don't feel comfortable because they know me in real life. Anyway, most of them are not readers. For those who read, they don't read English books. You guys also know I struggle forever because it's not my first language, therefore I still hesitate to reveal the books, but I am improving. It's nothing much, it's one of the hardest things I do (working purpose) and it's an emotional roller-coaster. For a few days I feel great, there are countless days when I feel worthless and inadequate. Today, it's great. Just want to share. You are all still my safe place.
  3. Carol, this is like an ex who always lingers and being annoying. I am sorry but I have seen your war with it for years
  4. There are a lot of ways to look into it, but yeah, I am on his side. I still care about people and feel for those who are the victims of war, disease, and injustice. I still worry about my loved ones and the future everyday. However, I'm hopeless about what ordinary people can do because we are basically powerless, pawns. Those with power are mostly greedy and don't blink an eyes about the misery they cause to ordinary people, but sadly, there isn't much we can do. Most are too easily distracted or pitted against each other, have no critical minds, or too narrow-minded to see the bigger pictures. I have no faith that this is ever going to change in my lifetime.
  5. Oh good to know. I knew I would need to dedicate a lot of time so I haven't started, maybe I won't. I am the kind of person who would go sleepless to finish watching a show and it's not good for my timing. I enjoyed it but it doesn't leave much impression after I was done. Apparently there is a lot of things in the background from the moment it was still an unknown work until the messed-up production, to deaths etc surrounding it. Yes. There is a spin-off Yakamoz S-245 with the submarine. Story is still not concluded though.
  6. Humans with below 40ish eyes, maybe? Some images are so blur and unclear there were more than two times when I had to do ten tests. Once I gave up because it was never-ending. I don't think they look at the camera (I hope not!). I am that kind of people who always have tape over the cameras. Judging by the amounts of bots frequenting almost every social media nowadays, I think they are not doing good jobs at separating humans and bots, although I strongly suspect bots are intentional. Just recently FB mentioned they are introducing bots to interact with humans. Not sure why, because they are already out there everywhere, posting propaganda, chatting users up, etc. I am 'quite new' to Twitter, in terms of knowing how it works. There are countless of sexy bots thinking I am sexy, sending dms, following in batch. At first I thought they were genuine 'followers' (hate that term) After a while, I am getting slightly smarter now and know I can't be that sexy.
  7. You both are right, the term refers to someone being greedy, like they have a family, but want a mistress, or want to keep a double lives, things like that. Actually, it's quite obvious (after Carol explained it), not sure why I didn't get the logic . I know what they meant from the context, but every time I heard it, I got furious with the terms and my mind didn't work. The idea of not eating that cake somehow drives me nuts (still!). What did John or Sherlock say? Clot? I'd rather they don't use cake, maybe keeps the pants and wears it, too? No? Sherlock couldn't wear his pants and keep it too in Buckingham Palace, could he?
  8. The ones I had seen were shelves of daily necessity being locked up or marked above 950 (with note to get the reductions on the cashier).
  9. I think this is the best explanation which makes it slightly more understandable now. The context with what I watch is probably along the line 'keep the cake (maybe for later) and also eat one now.' Still, I am against not eating a cake rightaway :p One of others that drive me nuts is 'I'm up for' or 'I'm down' means the same thing. The other day it stopped me a while to decide how to respond, whether it's up or down (because I was sure I have heard two versions before), but as usual, I always doubt myself and needed to double check. So, I just choose other answers like count me in or I am okay, then retreated to check instead of humiliating myself (which I still do anyway in other terms I am confident with but wrong!) I have read the origins of these two terms, but just to show you how confusing English can be. Another example: someone talked about 'hair of the dog' in his list of hangover cure he didn't want, and I took it literally and responded that I didn't mind hair of my dog in my drink!
  10. I think you meant the ones stuck on our skinny Christmas tree? I was the one who put it on the tree, he provided tremendous help by making a few-minutes work into an hour, continously picking the toys from them and playing with it. They only perched there. I had the same tree with same decorations with the same dog posing for years (with same santa hat and scarf, I think I had posted it here before) so this (last) year I used his toys and I love it. I believe I saw a video of cops going around and following two shoplifters to catch them on the third act because they could only do so. I could be wrong, but I think that is in line with what you describe there. However, isn't it still a joke? I don't get the logic. Why would I work hard if I could just go in and 'get' my grocery for free? 950 dollar is a lot of money. You see, I was baptized as Christian, I have a skinny Christmas tree decorated with saliva-ridden dog toys just because I love the feeling of Christmas, nothing religious, but you will see me pray hard when the cashier rings my grocery nowadays, hoping the dollars don't add up that fast, and it's a fraction and bloody far from $950.
  11. I love True Crime and some narrators always use the term 'she/he wants the cake and eats it, too' (mostly to describe crimes that involve greed or possessiveness). This actually drives me nuts. I mean WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT A CAKE BUT NOT TO EAT IT?!? GET MYCROFT!
  12. Watched 3 Body Problems, Alice in Borderland, Into the Night. Anyone watches them? Haven't had chance to watch Ripley.
  13. Well, apparently, it happened again. In 2016 (?), I was devastated, even though I lived far away. I just can't fathom why someone like that could be elected. Maybe I was still hopeful and naive. This year, I felt nothing. I don't know if the world has gone way too crazy, or I am jaded by everything else as well. My take for everything now is: whatever, just leave me and my family alone. I know it's impossible, but meh for every play, manipulation, greed, puppeteering in every industry. Not only politic and economic, but I feel jaded about everything, knowing people who are affected the most are puppets and powerless. The more I know, the more I think the world is broken and that wealth shouldn't be monopolized by some who become too powerful, or those with greed that will never be satisfied in expense of small people. I have one conclusion: I think we should eat the rich and powerful.
  14. Merry Christmas! I remember it used to snow here and I have missed all of you greatly. Hope you are all well! I can't find a good way to host my image anymore, a link is the best I can do. This is my dog Locky, posing with 'almost' all his toys, collected over 9.5 years from me, family, and friends. He doesn't destroy toys (he only digs plastic/button eyes ) and I wash them when they get too dirty, so they are all in good conditions. https://ibb.co.com/7tW7gQZ The rest of the toys are either scattered around, in his toy's lair, or are somewhere waiting to trip me. I can't express how happy I am with this picture. We had just gone through weird times. He had a head operation early November to remove a lump (thankfully it's benign) but the few months leading to it and the time waiting for the biopsy result were hellish. Locky is a healthy dog, but he is 9.5 years old, has kidney issues, irregular heartbeat, and reverse sneezing. While all these didn't give him problems, it increased his risk significantly for anesthetic procedure. It didn't help that I had known a few healthy dogs that didn't wake up after simplest procedures, and there were multiple pet deaths around me including my brother's when I was told he needed the operation. The fear of him not waking up and going home with me paralyzed me with fear. Besides that, I also went through my own operation that delayed his (thankfully, nothing permanent but it was unexpected. The only time I was hospitalized was almost forty years ago) but everything is okay now! We are out there again roaming the beaches! So, Merry Christmas! Hope you have the good one, too.
  15. That's what I think, I watched other zombie shows without hesitation. I think the fact that it has been going around so long that put me off again and again. See? I know there are more! I actually wrote something like that and yes, it depressed me so much I took a lot of break and was genuinely affected by it. I know what you meant. Talking about undead, have you watched The Last of Us? It's based on video game but it's a very good season one, mostly because of the things you mentioned. The Talented Mr. Ripley? Are they the same? I watched the movie and I quite like it. It's not my favorite but it was intriguing to me. Anyway, my deadline is looming and I haven't found time to watch it.
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