@matigo applause It's a wonderful feeling isn't it?
@tomas It's the same petty tyrant/moralistic behavior the Moral Majority indulged in a few decades ago minus the religious elements.
There are certain personality types who are drawn to that nonsense like moths to flame.
// @streakmachine
@matigo I never understood the appeal of pachinko. From what I have seen, it's pinball for people too lazy top play standing up.
@hybotics I always expected Scotty to have some problems in life because he was staggeringly intelligent but not-quite right in all other areas. Used to get bullied a lot. One of the reasons I befriended him. If me and the others hung out with him, no-one would dare give him problems.
He just vanished after we grew up. Common question: "Has anyone heard anything about Scotty?"
Apparently, he got into serious trouble with alcoholism and had chronic pain from an injury. Went out in the woods, picked a tree and hung himself from it. Someone discovered him a day or two later.
Angry, If I had any idea he was in that shape..
I knew the second I saw the call-back message of a childhood friend I hadn't heard from in years, it would be bad news.
One of "the gang" was found dead. Hung himself in the woods after years of alcoholism and chronic pain from an injury.
I'm angry because he fell off the face of the Earth and no-one knew where he was or what was going on in his life. If I had known, I'd have helped him at least financially or just been a friend if that is all he needed. Something. Anything.
Eye appointment. Going back home afterwards and doing some gardening and such. Customers permitting.
I hate talking to people I used to work out with.
It's similar to someone who went straight and clean hooking up with the junkie friends of the past.
I am not going to "gym rat" again.
NO.
@nitinkhanna Windows is only occasionally allowed to get beyond the router at my house for that very reason.
Made the mistake of reading excerpts from Sean Penn's novel.
Dear God, why did someone not set him down and talk him out of it?